How Does the Comprehensive Social Public Participation Affect Perceptions of Social Justice?

Abstract

This study reveals the complex effects of the government service perception and different types of the comprehensive social public participation on the comprehensive perception of social justice and its sub-dimensions through OLS regression. Specifically, we find that the government service perception exhibits extremely significant and robust positive effects in all models. At the same time, the impact of different types of the comprehensive social public participation on perceptions of social equity shows significant variability. Rights advocacy participation demonstrates a negative effect in the model of the sense of legal and opportunity equality. This finding that suggests we need to further examine and optimize the advocacy mechanisms. The negative role of communication engagement in all sub-dimension models reveals the inadequacy of information transfer and communication mechanisms in building social trust. In contrast, the positive effect of community participation in the model of the sense of legal and opportunity equality highlights the positive role of communities in promoting social fairness, while the overall positive effect of electoral participation, although weakly significant in some sub-dimensions, suggests the potential value of the electoral system in enhancing the sense of social fairness.