Sense Of Incorruption,Institutional Trust And Public Participation In Anti-corruption

With the overwhelming trend of anti-corruption in the direction of depth,the micro corruption around the masses more prominent.To break through the "last mile" of the fight against corruption has become an important goal in the current governance of grassroots corruption.The active participation of the public in anti-corruption largely determines the efficiency and effectiveness of anti-corruption.At present,although the government has introduced relevant policies to publicize and encourage the public to participate in the fight against corruption,the public participation in anti-corruption is still in a spontaneous,unorganized and disorderly state,without forming effective mechanisms and norms.This is not conducive to the implementation of anti-corruption work.In recent years,scholars have paid more attention to the factors affecting public participation in anti-corruption intentions around the theme of public participation in anticorruption.On the one hand,the research focuses on the economic environment,political ecology,mass media and other environmental factors involved in anti-corruption public participation.On the other hand,the study focuses on the impact of public individual characteristics on anti-corruption public participation from the perspective of the public.Behavioral public management theory holds that the government and the public are interactive.The government's behavior affects the public's sense of acquisition and trust,and the public's sense of acquisition and trust will adversely affect the government's behavior.The theory of planned behavior believes that human behavior is influenced by behavioral attitudes(acquisition and trust),subjective norms(government encouragement,surrounding environmental constraints)and perceptual behavioral control(different conditions).Specific to the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption governance,it can be understood that the public's anti-corruption participation behavior is affected by its own sense of integrity,institutional trust,and its own environment and conditions.The sense of integrity is the subjective evaluation of the individual's ability to fight against corruption and promote the government.The system trust is the level of trust of the individual in the government's anti-corruption system.Both of these belong to the public's participation in the anti-corruption struggle.Based on the theory of planned behavior,this paper uses empirical analysis to explore whether the two are important factors influencing the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption governance.In the existing research,there is a lack of literature on the impact of the sense of integrity and institutional trust on the anti-corruption public participation,and the use of empirical analysis to study the influencing factors of anti-corruption public participation is even less.Therefore,studying the impact of the sense of integrity and institutional trust on the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption governance will help to understand the impact of these two factors on the willingness to participate in anti-corruption public participation,and help to more fully understand the current problems about public participation in anti-corruption.Taking Hangzhou as an example,this study focuses on the core issue of “acquisition of clean government and how system trust affects the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption”.Based on reviewing and combing relevant literature,this paper builds a sense of integrity and institutional trust's conceptual model of anti-corruption public participation willingness.In the research process,this paper firstly used the questionnaire survey method to obtain 1012 valid questionnaires,and then use quantitative analysis to verify the research hypothesis.The research focuses on the following issues:(1)Is the sense of integrity and institutional trust an important factor affecting public participation in anti-corruption?(2)How does the sense of integrity and institutional trust affect public participation in anti-corruption?(3)What is the relationship and mechanism of the sense of integrity,the trust of the system and the willingness to participate in anti-corruption?The results of the study:(1)The public's sense of integrity has a significant positive impact on their willingness to participate in anti-corruption,indicating that the higher the public's sense of integrity,the stronger their willingness to participate in anti-corruption.(2)The public who trusts the integrity system has a stronger willingness to participate in anti-corruption participation.(3)Institutional trust plays a mediating role in the relationship between the sense of integrity and the willingness to participate in anticorruption public participation.These results held true even after the robustness test.The study believes that there is a close relationship between the sense of integrity,institutional trust and the willingness to fight against corruption.The public's sense of integrity and institutional trust can not only directly affect the willingness to participate in anti-corruption,but also affect the willingness to participate in anti-corruption through institutional trust.Therefore,the study proposes to increase the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption by increasing the public's sense of integrity and enhancing the public's institutional trust.The main theoretical contributions of this inquiry:(1)From the perspective of behavioral public management,study how the public's psychological sensation of anti-corruption and honesty and individual trust attitude affect their willingness to participate in anti-corruption,and find that institutional trust intervenes in the influence of the sense of integrity and the willingness to participate in anti-corruption.The role is a rich and complementary study of public participation in anti-corruption willingness in the field of public management from a psychological perspective.(2)Combine the subjective attitudes of individuals with the control of perceived behaviors,study the differences of the public's willingness to participate in anti-corruption with different levels of trust,and expand the existing theories.