Personality and political discontent in China, with Rory Truex
Sinica Podcast
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Are People Engaging in Protest in China Really Regime Reinforcing?
The types of individuals that you're focused on here in this paper are not the kind of dissidents to whom with whom many of us are familiar. They have a lot more traits associated with leadership, like extra version and clar and social confidence and things like that. So i i actually have in my surveys, i collected polit participation variables and things like petitioning, protesting, that sort of activity. And you see that those types of people actually have a very different personality profile as well. That it's a different type of person which i think is also interesting and speaks to this idea that people engaging in protest in china today aren't necessarily the most discontented with the system itself,.
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