Mobilizing for Trust: The Lasting Impacts of Sent-Down Youths on Rural China

• In Event: Regime Support, Trust, and Legitimacy in China

Brief Overview

This paper estimates the lasting impacts of the “Sent-Down Youths (SDYs)” movement on rural citizens’ social and political trust as well as civic engagement by focusing on their different intensity of exposure to SDYs.

Authors

• Xin Han, University of Pittsburgh

• Ying Liu, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus