Index

authoritarianism in China 50

affective support (see also diffuse support) 52, 54, 55–6, 58, 60, 62–4, 107

Calvinism 28

Chairman Mao 21, 30, 31, 40, 44, 50–1, 63

China scholars in the US 2–3

China's Gini coefficient 34

Chinese Communist Party (CCP) 6, 40, 45–6, 50, 66, 73, 75, 84, 91

Chinese Communist Revolution 52

Chinese Communist Youth League (CYL) 45–7, 84, 85

Chinese constitution, 69, 75, 83, 108

Chinese scholarly official system 28

civic culture 3–4

Clinton, Bill 69

compensation for village officials 76, 84–5, 94

Confucianism 27–9

core democratic values 5, 8, 11–14, 18, 24–5, 35, 89–91, 103, 105

Cultural Revolution 12, 40, 51, 60

Daoism 29

Daqiu 32

decollectivization 30

democratization in China 15, 22, 25

Deng Xiaoping 21, 31, 40

Deng Yujiao 6

diffuse support (see also affective support) 52, 104

economic reform in China 18–21

election of party secretary 77–8

fear of chaos 64–6

free market values 18, 33, 36

gender equality 23, 44

Great Leap Forward Movement 31

‘harmonious society’ 6

‘hierarchy of needs’ 24, 45, 105

Hope Group 32

Household Responsibility System 1, 5, 27, 30, 69

Hu Jintao 21

Hukou 1, 7, 33, 84

idiographic approach 3

instrumental support 52, 55–6, 104

internal efficacy (see also political efficacy) 71, 72, 76–7, 80, 81

Jiang Zemin 21

levels of political interest 39–48, 62, 79, 87, 104

life satisfaction 15–16, 40, 44, 46, 47, 60, 79, 95

Liu brothers 32

‘mandate from heaven’ 50, 51, 54

May 4th Movement 64

Marxism 29

migrant farmers 32

Ministry of Civil Affairs 69

negative legitimization 54, 67

‘neo-authoritarianism’ 25

Nomothetic approach 3

number of China's village officials 84

official corruption 13, 24, 56, 78, 85

Organic Law 70–1, 73, 75, 97, 119n

Parsons, Talcott 29

party–government separation 100

people's communes 30, 34, 69, 104

people's militia 84

policy evaluation 55–6, 57, 64, 107

political efficacy (see also internal efficacy) 13, 20–1, 36, 88, 90

political legitimacy 49–68, 104,

political reform 46–8

political satisfaction 16–18, 24, 26

prospective evaluations of economic and political conditions 33–5, 61–2

Protestantism 28

Puritanism 28

recruitment of village officials 88–9

response rate 7, 72

rural commercialization 29

rural entrepreneurship 31–2

rural industrialization 31

rural migration 31

rural stability 91, 105

Russian communist revolution 50

‘salvation anxiety’ 28

Sinology 2

Sun Zhigang 6

Sunan model 31

Sunan Social Research Center 7

support for market economy 27–38, 97–8, 103

support for political reform 21–2, 46

Taiwan 8

Thatcher, Margaret 29

Tiananmen democracy movement 60, 63, 66, 100, 119n

Tibet 8

TVEs 7, 20, 31, 38, 63

unique features of this study 9–10

urban–rural income gap 1

village election 9, 12, 69–82, 105 constraints on village election 72–6 voter turnout in village election 71–2, 105

Weber, Max 28–9

Wenzhou model 31

World Value Survey 4

Yu Zuomin 31–2

Zhou Enlai 51

Zhu De 51