Abstract
Drawing on the resource model of political participation, this study examines the ways in which various resources, including money, computer and Internet access, Internet skills, and civic skills predict Chinese citizens’ political participation online. The results showed that income was a significant predictor of online political participation regardless of whether it was by using the Internet to contact governmental officials, monitoring public policies online, or participating in online protests. Civic skills also consistently predicted the three forms of online political participation. Computer and Internet access, as well as Internet skills, were significant predictors of some forms of online political participation, but not all of them. Political interest positively moderated the association between income and each of the three dependent variables. The theoretical and empirical implications of these results are discussed.
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Drawing on the resource model of political participation, this study examines the ways in which various resources, including money, computer and Internet access, Internet skills, and civic skills predict Chinese citizens’ political participation online
The results showed that income was a significant predictor of online political participation regardless of whether it was by using the Internet to contact governmental officials, monitoring public policies online, or participating in online protests
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The University of Rhode Island Faculty have made this article openly available. Please let us know how Open Access to this research benefits you. In the channels that do exist, citizens can elect and contact people’s representatives in the People’s Congress regarding policy proposals They can file a petition in the form of a letter or personal visit to the Bureau of Letters and Visits (BLV) at the local or central government, and they can mobilize social protests in various forms (Chen, 2004; Chen & Xu, 2011; Jennings, 1997; Zhang, 2015). The individual petition is still a popular means of participation, many petitioners quickly find that their cases are ignored by officials in the BLV (Chen, 2004; Li, 2008)
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