The Influence Of Political Efficacy On Residents' Participation In Environmental Collective Action

China is currently in a sensitive period of environmental issues.Citizens are participate in a period of high incidence of environmental collective action.In addition to focusing on the environmental issues themselves,the government should also pay attention to all kinds of collective actions triggered by environmental issues.Collective actions involving general citizen participation are contingent and sudden.The collective actions are difficult to prevent and control.The problem of environmental pollution has long-term and complex nature.The collective action caused by environmental problems is usually a process of accumulation of contradictions.Citizens' awareness of environmental protection is constantly strengthening.When they perceive the dangers of their surroundings,they will take corresponding actions to protect their legitimate rights and interests.Citizens safeguard their legal rights mainly through petitions and parades.The paper defines the collective action of environmental protection as the act of activism in the form of groups.People adopt an extra-system and rational way to safeguard their own living environment rights and interests when they suffer the problem of environmental pollution.As the main body of governance,the government should pay close attention to environmental pollution issues,formulate laws and regulations related to the environment,and pay attention to the promotion of environmental protectionknowledge.When beautiful living environment is destroyed,the government should promptly resolve existing environmental problems.Enterprises are equally important in environmental governance.Qualified companies play an active role in promoting environmental protection.Environmental organizations have social welfare,and they act as a third organization between the government and residents.It plays a very good role in regulating.The public should enhance their environmental awareness.They should actively participate in environmental collective actions and do everything they can to protect the surrounding environment.Political effectiveness plays a very important role in environmental collective action.The paper uses Robert Ryan's approach to the division of political efficacy,which divides political efficacy into external political efficacy and internal political efficacy.Political effectiveness is influenced by factors such as age,gender,and education level.In the analysis of the influencing factors of environmental collective action,the benefits relief channels are not smooth enough.Some citizens can not express their own interests in the formal channels,so they express the interests in the informal channels.In this process,the citizens show low response to the government.As a very important political psychological phenomenon,political efficacy has a very important influence on political participation.Residents with high political efficiency are more likely to participate in political activities.In terms of quantificative aspects,the paper uses stata software to analyze CGSS2010 data.In terms of qualitative aspects,the paper uses interviews to collect information.The paper analyzes the impact of political efficacy and citizen participation in environmental collective action.It combines the relevant interview data of environmental protection issues among residents in Songjiang district to verify the data results.And it analyzes the impact of political efficacy on residents' participation in environmental collective action.The conclusions show that both external political efficacy and internal political efficacy have an impact on residents' participation in environmental collective events.The influence of external political efficacy on the participation of environmental collective action is more significant than the internal political efficacy.In a word,the higher the political efficiency of residents,the more likely they are to participate inenvironmental collective action.