公民对政府财政危机的责任归因:来自中国的实验证据

IF 2.6 3区 管理学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE Governance-An International Journal of Policy Administration and Institutions Pub Date : 2023-12-28 DOI:10.1111/gove.12849
Wenchi Wei, Nicolai Petrovsky, Xing Ni
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本研究通过随机调查实验,考察预算编制的专业性、环境冲击和财政透明度对政府财政危机期间公民责任归属的影响。从理论上讲,我们区分了责任归因的两种逻辑:因果责任强调行为人的行为与特定现象之间的因果联系;功能责任强调行为人与这些现象相关的法律、道德或社会义务。我们的实验侧重于对因果责任进行实证检验。此外,财政透明度可能会影响公民对政府财政绩效的看法,进而影响责任归属。实验结果表明,当专业专家在预算编制过程中扮演更重要的角色时,当地方经历严重的环境冲击时,或者当政府表现出更高的财政透明度时,公民对政府领导人的责任归因较少。这些发现支持了基于因果责任逻辑的推论,并在财政透明度和公民对政府绩效的认知之间建立了明确的关系。
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Citizen blame attributions for government fiscal crises: Experimental evidence from China

This study conducts a randomized survey experiment to examine the impact of budgeting professionalism, environmental shocks, and fiscal transparency on citizen blame attributions during government fiscal crises. Theoretically, we distinguish between two logics of responsibility attribution: causal responsibility stresses the causal link between an actor's actions and specific phenomena; functional responsibility underlines an actor's legal, moral, or social obligations in relation to such phenomena. Our experiment focuses on empirically testing causal responsibility. Moreover, fiscal transparency may shape citizens' perceptions regarding government fiscal performance and subsequently influence blame attributions. The experimental results show that citizens attribute less blame to government leaders when professional experts play a more important role in the budgeting process, when localities experience severe environmental shocks, or when governments exhibit greater fiscal transparency. These findings support inferences based on the logic of causal responsibility and establish a clear relationship between fiscal transparency and citizen perceptions of government performance.

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期刊介绍: Governance provides a forum for the theoretical and practical discussion of executive politics, public policy, administration, and the organization of the state. Published in association with International Political Science Association''s Research Committee on the Structure & Organization of Government (SOG), it emphasizes peer-reviewed articles that take an international or comparative approach to public policy and administration. All papers, regardless of empirical focus, should have wider theoretical, comparative, or practical significance.
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