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How Does Media Contact Affect Political Trust? —An Empirical Study Based On the Survey of World Values

JI Nai-li1, XIAO Wei-lin2   

  1. 1. Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Tianjin 300350, China;
    2. School of International Affairs and Public Affairs, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
  • Received:2022-05-20 Online:2023-01-15 Published:2023-03-24

Abstract: Political trust is related to political legitimacy and policy effectiveness. Based on the World Values Survey database, this paper makes an empirical test on the relationship between media contact and political trust. It is found that:1) Chinese political trust comes from both institutional performance and social culture, and both, through the media, are integrated into the occurrence mechanism of political trust; 2) newspapers and radio are conducive to maintaining political trust, while emerging media represented by the Internet may make the loss; 3) the erosion of emerging media has a crowding effect on the acculturation of traditional media. Different from previous studies, the paper finds that:1) the role of television tends to be negative on the whole; 2) national identity, political interest, subjective well-being and life satisfaction, as intermediary variables, constitute the intermediary mechanism of media contact affecting political trust. The cultivation of political trust in the Internet era requires the mass media to improve its credibility.

Key words: political trust, media contact, traditional media, new media, Internet

CLC Number: 

  • D035
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