社会治理水平、公民政治参与和个体认知水平——来自CGSS2015的实证分析

Social Governance Level, Citizen Political Participation and Individual Cognition—An Empirical Analysis from CGSS2015

摘要: 社会治理水平对于公民的政治生活提供了一个大的社会环境，政治参与受到当前社会发展状况的深刻影响。政治参与作为个体的行为选择，个体的认知能力能够左右其行为偏好和对行为的调整做出判断。为了验证社会治理水平、公民政治参与和个体认知之间的关系，本文使用“中国综合社会调查”(CGSS2015)数据进行该研究，结果发现社会治理水平能够正向影响公民的政治参与行为和态度，公民的个体认知水平能够显著影响其政治参与，个体认知水平在社会治理水平和公民政治参与之间存在调节作用，高认知水平的人对环境的感知更加敏感，能在环境变化后迅速做出行为选择的调整。

Abstract: The level of social governance provides a large social environment for citizens’ political life, and political participation is deeply affected by the current social development. Political participation is a behavioral choice of individuals whose cognitive ability can influence their behavioral preferences and make judgments on the adjustment of behaviors. In order to verify the social governance, citizens’ political participation and the relationship between the individual cognitions, this article used “the Chinese general social survey” (CGSS2015) data for the study, found that social governance to the positive influence of the citizen’s political participation behavior and attitude, citizen’s individual cognitive level can significantly affect their political participation, individuals’ cognitive level has a moderating effect on social governance level and citizens’ political participation. People with high cognitive level are more sensitive to the perception of the environment and can quickly adjust their behavior choices after environmental changes.