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Association: Name: ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting URL: http://ispp.org
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Shi, Tianjian. "Effects of Media Control in Shaping People’s Attitudes Towards US: Evidence from Surveys" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France, <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p256195_index.html>

Shi, T. "Effects of Media Control in Shaping People’s Attitudes Towards US: Evidence from Surveys" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the ISPP 31st Annual Scientific Meeting, Sciences Po, Paris, France <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p256195_index.html

Publication Type: Paper (prepared oral presentation) Abstract: The regime in People Republic of China uses its substantial political power to control public access to the free flow of information. What effects does such control have on people political orientation? This is a crucial issue in communist societies that has received little notice by western scholars. Even if scholars now can get information on political attitudes of ordinary people in Chinese societies, they do not know if such attitudes were shaped by the controlled-media. Fortunately, the blockage of the media had some consistent degree of leakage as an unintended result of reform and modernization. Residents in Xiamen, Fujian Province can now regularly pick up radio and TV signals from Taiwan. Such a leakage provides researchers with a nearly perfect quasi-experimental setting to study effects of media control on people political orientation and political behavior. Taking advantage of these national experimental settings, I conducted two independent surveys, one in Xiamen and the other in Chengdu, a city with roughly equal level of economic development. The samples are reasonably closely matched on such important variables as economic development, freedom of movement, education, urbanization, but vary in a key independent variable, access to free information. Using data collected from these two surveys, we examine impacts of state-controlled media on people’s attitudes towards the United States. The paper shows that people’s attitude towards the US is a multi-dimensional phenomenon – people in these two cities can clearly distinguish US foreign policy from its domestic political institution, culture, and technology. Further analysis shows that while accessing to foreign media plays a positive role in shaping people's attitudes towards US on non-foreign policy dimensions, such an access has no statistical significant impacts on people’s attitudes towards US foreign-policy. Taking together, the finding of the paper suggest students of Chinese politics has overestimated the effectiveness of media control in helping regime to forget nationalism in China to consolidate its power.

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