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- Meng Yuan
- Brendon Swedlow
Abstract
We synthesize the Narrative Policy Framework and Grid‐Group Cultural Theory to develop two sets of hypotheses about how culturally varying expert narratives and social group cues on COVID‐19 influence Chinese support for policy change. We construct culturally appealing expert narratives variously presenting the goal of policy change as being to achieve economic efficiency, social equity, and national order. We also culturally cue expert organizational affiliations. We find that egalitarian support for policy changes increases when experts frame policies as ways to increase social equity and are affiliated with non‐governmental organizations working to improve health care for vulnerable populations. That is, egalitarian support for policy increases when policy frames and social group cues are congruent with egalitarian values. Meanwhile, individualist and hierarchist support for policy change decreases when policies are culturally framed and expert social group affiliations culturally cued in ways incongruent with the values of these cultures. Some of these effects persist a month after exposure. 我们综合运用叙事政策框架和网格群体文化理论,提出了两组假设,探讨不同文化背景下专家对新冠疫情的叙事和社会群体线索如何影响中国民众对政策调整的支持。我们构建了符合不同文化价值观的专家叙事,这些叙事将政策调整的目标分别设定为实现经济效率、社会公平和国家秩序,并通过专家所属组织来提供文化线索。研究发现,当专家将政策框架设定为提升社会公平的途径,且其隶属于致力于改善弱势群体医疗服务的非政府组织时,平等主义者对政策调整的支持显著提高。也就是说,当政策框架和社会群体线索与平等主义价值观相符时,平等主义者对政策的支持会增强。与此同时,当政策的文化框架和专家所属社会群体的文化线索与个人主义和等级主义价值观不一致时,这两类群体对政策调整的支持则会下降。部分影响在接触这些因素一个月后仍然存在。 Sintetizamos el Marco de Política Narrativa y la Teoría Cultural de Grupos de Rejilla para desarrollar dos conjuntos de hipótesis sobre cómo las narrativas de expertos culturalmente variables y las señales de grupos sociales sobre la COVID‐19 influyen en el apoyo chino al cambio de políticas. Construimos narrativas de expertos culturalmente atractivas que presentan el objetivo del cambio de políticas como el logro de la eficiencia económica, la equidad social y el orden nacional. También señalamos culturalmente las afiliaciones organizacionales de los expertos. Encontramos que el apoyo igualitario a los cambios de políticas aumenta cuando los expertos enmarcan las políticas como formas de aumentar la equidad social y están afiliados a organizaciones no gubernamentales que trabajan para mejorar la atención médica para poblaciones vulnerables. Es decir, el apoyo igualitario a las políticas aumenta cuando los marcos de políticas y las señales de grupos sociales son congruentes con los valores igualitarios. Mientras tanto, el apoyo individualista y jerárquico al cambio de políticas disminuye cuando las políticas se enmarcan culturalmente y las afiliaciones de grupos sociales de los expertos se señalan culturalmente de maneras incongruentes con los valores de estas culturas. Algunos de estos efectos persisten un mes después de la exposición.
Suggested Citation
Meng Yuan & Brendon Swedlow, 2026.
"Do Culturally Varying Expert Narratives and Social Group Cues on COVID‐19 Influence Chinese Support for Policy Change?,"
Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 43(4), July.
Handle:
RePEc:bla:revpol:v:43:y:2026:i:4:n:e70118
DOI: 10.1111/ropr.70118
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