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The Politics of Quality-of-Life Issues: Food Safety and Political Trust in China
Abstract
As incomes have risen, quality-of-life issues have become increasingly prominent in China. How does the growing salience of quality-of-life issues affect Chinese politics and policy? Drawing on data from a Chinese national survey, the article examines the patterns of public attitudes toward food safety, a major quality-of-life concern in contemporary China. The article finds that the young, well-educated, as well as public sector employees tend to have a high level of concern for food safety risks. The article also finds that lack of confidence in food safety erodes public trust in both local and central authorities. These findings point to the importance of food safety as a public policy issue and help explain the Chinese leadership’s policy and institutional responses to food safety concerns.
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“Consumer trust in Chinese-produced goods is regularly breached through food scandals (Yan 2012; Wu, Yang, and Chen 2017) and fake consumer goods (Notar 2006; de Kloet and Chow 2016).”
From The Aesthetics of In/Authenticity: Buddhism, Commodification, and Ethnoreligious Belonging in a Sino-Tibetan Contact Zone (2021) · cites this paper as Wu, Yang, and Chen 2017
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- Authors
- Wu, X., Yang, D. L., & Chen, L.
- Affiliations
- Stanford University (US)
- University of Chicago (US)
- Chapin Hall (US)
- Corresponding author
- Yang, Dali L.
- Venue
- Journal of Contemporary China
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2017-02-01
- Volume
- 26
- Issue
- 106
- Pages
- 601-615
- ISSN
- 1067-0564 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-9400
- OpenAlex
- W2584351787
- Cited by
- 62
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2025: 8 · 2024: 7 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 9 · 2021: 12 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 6 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 4
- FWCI
- 31.91
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Contemporary China (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Chinese Academy of Sciences
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Life Sciences › Agricultural and Biological Sciences › Food Science › Food Safety and Hygiene
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Risk Perception and Management
- Keywords
- food safety, quality of life, public trust in government, public attitudes, risk perception, Chinese politics, food safety policy, public sector employees
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