1、6900 英文单词，英文单词，39500 英文字符英文字符，中文中文 11500 字字 文献出处：文献出处：Huhe N, Chen J, Tang M. Social trust and grassroots governance in rural ChinaJ. Social science research, 2015, 53: 351-363. Social trust and grassroots governance in rural China Narisong Huhe, Jie Chen, Min Tang Abstract The relationship be
2、tween social trust and governance has been one of the focal points of the academic and policy-making communities. Empirical studies on this relationship, however, have focused mostly on democracies. The scarcity of such studies in authoritarian countries has left many important questions unanswered:
3、 Is social trust associated with effective governance only in democratic settings? Can social trust improve the quality of governance in non-democracies as well? Drawing on data from 2005 China General Social Surveya representative survey conducted nationwide at both the individual- and village-leve
4、l in rural China, this paper attempts to answer these questions empirically by examining the relationship between social trust and the quality of governance in rural China. The fi ndings reveal that different types of social trustparticularized trust and generalized trustcorrespond with different ef
5、fects in rural governance: whereas villagers trust in people whom they knew personally was positively and signifi cantly associated with the provision of various public goods and services, their trust in strangers had virtually no impact on rural governance. Keywords: Social trust;Rural govern
6、ance ;Public goods provision ;Asia 1. Introduction Ever since the late 1950s and particularly after the rise of social capital studies, the relationship between social trust and grassroots governance has attracted enormous attention from both the academic and policy-making communities. A large part of the literature suggests that social trust, as the lubricant of society, is indispensable for effective democratic governance at various levels. Subsequent empirical studies further confi rm that i
