Better Government,Happier Residents: Quality of Government and Life Satis faction in China
发布日期：2020-06-16
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Abstract：How quality of government affects residents’ life satisfaction is a seldom discussed subject, especially in an on-democratic context. This research aims to address that gap by focusing on the case of China. It investigates the relation between different aspects of quality of government and Chinese residents’ happiness. Our data was provided by telephone interviews of 5015 residents in Shandong Province. The findings indicate that the majority of China’s citizens consider their lives offer them a high level of satisfaction. Positively and significantly contributing to their life satisfaction are the government’s trust worthiness and responsiveness, and it’s performance in public service delivery. This result implies that the quality of government has appositive and important impact on Chinese citizens’ happiness, both technically in terms of its ability to deliver public services efficiently, and politically in terms of the extent of democracy involved. But of these, it seems that the former is the more significant. The reasons for this lie in the country’s level of economic development, in China’s political culture, and in the policing mechanisms of the regime.
作者：Huaxing Liu、Hong Gao、Qing Huang
出处:Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement 2020年第3期
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