Political Trust in China

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Political Trust in China is written by Lianjiang Li and published by University of Michigan Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0472905090 (ISBN 10) and 9780472905096 (ISBN 13).

The authoritarian regime in China is a prime target of the US-led war on autocracy; however, the regime claims a majority of the Chinese people trust the government, with national surveys since the 1990s supporting this assertion. How much do Chinese citizens actually trust the one-party regime? Instead of dismissing survey results, Li examines the contexts in which Chinese citizens are predisposed to say they trust the government. He argues that political trust in China is a power-accommodating and nonbinding hope rather than a rights-based and binding expectation as Chinese citizens do not have the right to grant and retract trust through free and fair elections.