The Influence Of Contemporary Chinese Social Capital On Political Participation In The Period Of Transition

Social capital is an important part of modern democratic political life,and citizens'political participation plays an important role in the construction of democratic politics in modern countries.Therefore,examining the relationship between social capital and political participation in China during the transition period is to promote socialism.The construction of democratic politics is of great significance.This paper uses social capital theory to analyze the relationship between social capital and political participation,and uses the data from the mainland China region in the fourth round of the Asian Barometer 2016(ABS)to conduct statistical analysis through Stata15 software,in an effort to discover the Chinese society in transition.The current state of capital,political participation,and the internal mechanism between China's social capital and political participation during the transition period.This paper divides social capital and political participation into variable design.Social capital is transformed into three independent variables:social network,social trust and community participation.Transform political participation into two dependent variables:institutional political participation and active political participation.First of all,this paper transforms China's social capital into"social network","social trust" and "social participation"during the transition period;transforms political participation in China during the transition period into "institutional political participation" and "active political participation".On this basis,the factor analysis is carried out,and the active political participation is divided into "interest-expression political participation" and "defending rights and political participation".Secondly,with the help of descriptive analysis and multiple regression analysis,the status quo of social capital and political participation is described and the influence of social capital on political participation is analyzed.The results show:1.Social capital and political participation continue to develop.During the transition period,China's social capital has achieved great development,and the organized sub-social network has made great progress.At the same time,it has largely retained the primary social network with Chinese characteristics and family,relatives and friends with blood as the link.It is still very developed;in the social trust of the transition period,the general trust and the special trust coexist,the general trust has a great development,the special trust between the acquaintances is affected by the general trust,but the characteristics of the "differential pattern"are still retained;the citizen participation The proportion of associations is still low.In terms of political participation,citizens have a higher level of institutional political participation,but they lack initiative;the level of active political participation is lower than the level of institutional political participation.2.Social networks increase participation initiative.Social networks can not only promote the participation of citizens in voting,but also promote institutional political participation.It can also promote active political participation,and promote the political participation of interest expression and political participation in rights defense.At the same time,community participation also promotes initiative.Sexual political participation,becoming a full member of the organization will increase the interests of citizens in the expression of political participation and rights-defending political participation.3.General trust promotes orderly participation.In the transitional society,general trust promotes the participation of citizens in voting,that is,promotes institutional political participation.At the same time,general trust will weaken the interest-based political participation of citizens,and has no significant influence on the political participation of rights defense.Special trust does not have a significant impact on institutional political participation and active political participation.All in all,the Chinese people's social capital presents a high level of social trust and the characteristics of a low-organized social network;citizens'political participation exhibits the characteristics of high institutional political participation and low-initiative political participation,but the form ofpolitical participation is diversified;Social capital in transition has a significant impact on political participation.Social networks increase the initiative of participation,and general trust promotes orderly participation.