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Monday 15 October 2018, 5pm-6.30pm
Performance legitimacy and the Chinese health care system
Dr Neil Munro (University of Glasgow)
Room G3, Main college building, SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H OXG
Abstract
Performance legitimacy usually refers to political support given to a regime conditionally, based on their performance. This seminar sets out to measure the impact of the health care system on trust in local government, trust in the central party-state and support for China’s political system. Using the China National Health Care Attitudes Survey conducted between November 2012 and January 2013, Dr Munro proposes logistic regression models treating health care system satisfaction and health insurance as, respectively, subjective and objective measures of the benefits citizens gain from the health care system. Controlling for socio-demographic variables, economic evaluations at household and national level, political values and political performance evaluations, we find that health care system satisfaction increases trust in local government but has no effect on trust in the central party-state, whereas having health insurance increases trust in the central party-state but has no effect on trust in local government. Neither health care variable matters for political system support. He attempts to explain these findings in relation to the literatures on political trust and system support China’s health care system.
Biography
Neil Munro is Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics at the University of Glasgow. He holds a BA (combined honours) in Chinese and Russian (Queensland, 1990) and a PhD in public policy from University of Strathclyde (2004). He has a comparative interest in popular participation in governance in China, Russia and post-Communist Europe and has authored or co-authored 17 peer-reviewed articles and four books on a wide range of themes ranging from acceptance of bureaucratic norms to elections, national identity, regime legitimacy and social cohesion. His current research focuses on these themes in relation to social and environmental policies.
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