内容简介
In this first scientific survey of political participation in the People's Republic of China, Tianjian Shi identifies twenty-eight participatory acts and groups them into seven areas: voting, campaign activities, appeals, adversarial activities, cronyism, resistance, and boycotts. What he finds will surprise many observers. Political participation in a closed society is not necessarily characterized by passive citizens driven by regime mobilization aimed at carrying out predetermined goals. Beijing citizens acknowledge that they actively engage in various voluntary participatory acts to articulate their interests.
In a society where communication channels are controlled by the government, Shi discovers, access to information from unofficial means becomes the single most important determinant for people's engaging in participatory acts. Government-sponsored channels of appeal are easily accessible to ordinary citizens, so socioeconomic resources are unimportant in determining who uses these channels. Instead, voter turnout is found to be associated with the type of work unit a person belongs to, subjective evaluations of one's own economic status, and party affiliation. Those most likely to engage in campaign activities, adversarial activities, cronyism, resistance, and boycotts are the more disadvantaged groups in Beijing. While political participation in the West fosters a sense of identification, the unconventional modes of participation in Beijing undermine the existing political order.
和很多在中国文化大革命后进入大学念书的人一样，史天健教授在1978年通过高考进入北京大学国际关系学院学习之前也曾跟作为上山下乡的青年人在农村劳动过很长时间。从1969年下乡到1975年回到北京，他在农村做过饲养员、当过专业卡车司机、甚至作为赤脚医生上过手术台给老百姓治病。在北京大学结束了本科学习之后，史天健教授考取了出国留学的奖学金，获得了在哥伦比亚大学政治学系攻读博士的资格；他于1982年赴美留学，并在1991年获了政治学博士学位，不久后获得了在杜克大学政治学系执教的机会，并一直在杜克大学服务到现在。
史天健教授的学术研究领域主要包括政治参与，以及政治文化对人们政治行为的影响。除了从理论上反思西方现有政治参与和政治文化理论对非民主或者半民主国家的适用程度外，史天健教授还利用大规模抽样调查获得的资料来考察政治文化、政治制度、个人资源等因素...
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