Zhengxu Wang

TL;DR: The authors found that the Chinese public expresses fairly strong criticism of some aspects of Chinese society, but they express high levels of confidence in the national government, indicating that people are less deferential to authority and increasingly ready to challenge government.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors captured this decline as reflecting the modernization of Chinese political culture and showed that Chinese citizens are acquiring stronger liberal democratic values, which make citizens more critical toward government institutions.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper showed that more than 90% of Chinese citizens believe that having a democracy is good, but the majority is not ready for a major effort towards democratization because they still see economic growth and social stability as more important than freedom of speech, political participation, and other democratic rights.

TL;DR: This article argued that the Chinese public's satisfaction with Government performance in both the economic and political arenas translates into a high level of public trust in the regime, and that the Party effectively halts any open challenges to its political power.