Creating Democratic Citizens
Political Effects of the Internet in China
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340932 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Huhe (0000-0002-0875-3029, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, UK), Min Tang (0000-0002-6459-2776, Shanghai University of Finance and Economics, Shanghai, China, corresponding author), Mu Tang (0000-0001-5102-4983), Jie Chen (0000-0002-9254-4413, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA, USA) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 71 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 757-771 |
| Publication date | 2018-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912918764338 |
| OpenAlex | W2788462536 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 20 |
| References cited | 66 |
This study explores the perplexing role of the Internet in authoritarian settings. We disentangle the political impact of the Internet along two distinct dimensions, indirect effects and direct effects. While the direct effects of the exposure to the Internet shape political attitudes in a manifest and immediate way, the indirect effects shape various political outcomes via instilling fundamental democratic orientations among citizens. In authoritarian societies such as China, we argue the indirect effects of the Internet as a value changer tend to be potent, transformative, and persistent. But the direct effects of the Internet as a mere alternative messenger are likely to be markedly contingent. Relying on the newly developed method of causal mediation analysis and applying the method to data from a recent survey conducted in Beijing, we find strong empirical evidence to support our argument about the two-dimensional impacts of the Internet in authoritarian countries
Argument (complex analysis · Authoritarianism · Beijing · China · Democracy · Development economics · Economics · Mediation · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Sociology · Survey data collection · The Internet · Transformative learning · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Law · Social Capital and Networks · Social Media and Politics
Government Trust, Exposure to Online Political Information, and Political Participation
Citizen Support for Democratic and Autocratic Regimes
Internet use, support for democracy and political participation
Modeling Social Media Effects on Political Distrust in Lebanon
I Know What You Mean
Parsing the Relationship Between Political News Consumption and Hierarchical Political Trust in China
Passive Political Legitimacy
Political trust in the internet context
Life‐Cycle and Generational Influences on Chinese Political Behavior and Attitudes
Distant Participation” and Youth Political Attitudes
Making the people’s voice heard
Assessing Performance from Space
Distrust in Government and Preference for Regime Change in China
Do People Trust the Government More? Unpacking the Distinct Impacts of Anticorruption Policies on Political Trust
From poverty to trust
The Internet, political trust, and regime types
How modernization theory has stumbled in China
Stratified Political Trust in a Nondemocratic Society
Public Trust During a Public Health Crisis
Once Accessing the Internet, Less Trusting of Local Officials
Politics as Usual
Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices
The Logic of Connective Action
Four Models of the Fourth Estate
Real-world Islands in a Social Media Sea
The Wealth of Networks
Online Groups and Political Discourse
The Dynamics of Audience Fragmentation
Politically Motivated Reinforcement Seeking
Social Media and the Decision to Participate in Political Protest
Safety Valve or Pressure Cooker? Blogs in Chinese Political Life
The moderator–mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
The moderator-mediator variable distinction in social psychological research
Democracy online
Open Networks, Closed Regimes
Democratic Values and the Transformation of the Soviet Union
Contingent Instrumental and Intrinsic Support
Maintaining Popular Support for the Chinese Communist Party
Democratization and Political Tolerance in Seventeen Countries
Crowdsourcing the Egyptian Constitution
Democratization and the Middle Class in China
Connecting" and "Disconnecting" With Civic Life
The Friendly Media Phenomenon
A Not-So World Wide Web
The Internet and the Democratization of Civic Culture
Identification and Sensitivity Analysis for Multiple Causal Mechanisms
Corrupting the Cyber-Commons
After Egypt
Popular Political Support in Urban China
Alternative framing
What Makes Democracies Endure
Liberation Technology
Public Opinion and Democratic Legitimacy
Liberation Technology
Liberation Technology
After the Arab Spring
Conventional" and "Virtual" Civil Societies in Autocratic Regimes
Reconsidering the Robustness of Authoritarianism in the Middle East
The Digital Divide
Elitism and Exclusion in Mass Protest
What Are the Origins of Political Trust
The Consequences of the Internet for Politics
Democratization During the Third Wave
Learning to Love Democracy
Unanimity, Discord, and the Communication of Public Opinion
Social Networks, Civil Society, and the Prospects for Consolidating Russia's Democratic Transition
A Mile Wide But an Inch Deep
Sources of Popular Support for Authoritarian Regimes
China's Strategic Censorship
The Compleat Economic Voter
Supervision by Public Opinion” or by Government Officials? Media Criticism and Central-Local Government Relations in China
When Grapevine News Meets Mass Media
Framing
Framing responsibility for political issues
The Rational Reconstruction of Society
The Nature of the Soviet System
Empowering activists or autocrats? The Internet in authoritarian regimes
Unpacking the Black Box of Causality
How Censorship in China Allows Government Criticism but Silences Collective Expression
Cross-cutting Social Networks
Reevaluating the Middle-Class Protest Paradigm
How the Chinese Government Fabricates Social Media Posts for Strategic Distraction, Not Engaged Argument
Revisiting Media Effects in Authoritarian Societies
| Unique citing works | 20 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,86 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 19 |