Influence of Social Networks on Citizens’ Willingness to Participate in Social Governance: Evidence from China

Table 5

Regression analysis results of social networks, social capital, and demographic characteristics on the citizens’ willingness to participate in social governance.

Variables	Ordinal logistic model			OLS model
	(1)	(2)	(3)	(4)	(5)	(6)
Gender	−0.4463	−0.4855	−0.4324	−0.2358	−0.2473	−0.2177
	(0.1197)	(0.1207)	(0.1218)	(0.0618)	(0.0612)	(0.0613
Age	−0.0395	−0.0620	−0.0701	−0.0212	−0.0311	−0.0348
	(0.0640)	((0.0646)	(0.0648)	(0.0331)	(0.0328)	(0.0326)
Education	0.4832	0.4606	0.4828	0.2397	0.2239	0.2335
	(0.0781)	(0.0786)	(0.0792)	(0.0397)	(0.0394)	(0.0392)
Political status	0.4031	0.3691	0.3973	0.2125	0.1904	0.2041
	(0.1282)	(0.1287)	(0.1294)	(0.0656)	(0.0653)	(0.0654)
Occupation	0.0370	0.0538	0.0500	0.0282	0.0372	0.0351
	(0.0601)	(0.0604)	(0.0608)	(0.0309)	(0.0306)	(0.0305)
Income	−0.0740	−0.0773	−0.0879	−0.0395	−0.0416	−0.0461
	(0.0572)	(0.0574)	(0.0577)	(0.0291)	(0.0288)	(0.0290)
Urban or rural	−0.0126	−0.0566	−0.1192	−0.0036	−0.0250	−0.0608
	(0.1451)	(0.1463)	(0.1478)	(0.0763)	(0.0753)	(0.0748)
Region	−0.5001	−0.5065	−0.5143	−0.2543	−0.2545	−0.2576
	(0.0800)	(0.0804)	(0.0808)	(0.0417)	(0.0413)	(0.0412)
Networks	—	—	0.3041	—	—	0.1555
			(0.0624)			(0.0328)
Trust	—	—	0.1578	—	—	0.0692
			(0.0628)			(0.0330)
Norms	—	—	0.1495	—	—	0.0798
			(0.0599)			(0.0305)
Capital	—	0.5026	—	—	0.2426	—
		(0.1005)			(0.0509)
_cons	—	—	—	2.1500	2.2114	2.2086
				(0.1899)	(0.1872)	(0.1872)
	108.64	134.19	145.62	15.32	17.46	16.38
Prob	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000	0.0000
	0.0428	0.0529	0.0574	0.0983	0.1197	0.1314

Note. and , respectively, represent the significance levels of 1% and 5%; data within () is robust standard errors.