class: center, middle, inverse, title-slide # Rebuilding the Tower of Babel? ## The Influence of Language Policy on Political Trust ### Yue Hu<br>Department of Political Science<br>Tsinghua University ### 2018-12-15 --- background-image: url(image/babel.jpg) background-position: 50% 50% background-size: 100% # Towel of Babel --- # Rebuilding the Towel? For What? .center[<img src="image/putonghua.jpg" height = 500 />] --- # Going Beyond Existing Research ### Shared Object * Official Language -- .left-column[ ### Limits * Only minorities * Only state-building phase * Proxy of culture ] -- .right-column[ ### Goal 1. .red[Full] population 1. .red[Established] environment 1. .red[Beyond] culture ] --- # <del>Culture</del> Communication-Based Theory -- * Listening: + Mainstreamized ⇮ + Hypotheses: + Being <font color="red">more</font> familiar with the political institutions + Align <font color="red">more</font> with the government --- * Speaking: + Activism ⇮ + Hypotheses: + <font color="red">More</font> interests and internal efficacy in politics + <font color="blue">Less</font> external efficacy + <font color="red">More</font> negative impression of the governmental officials. -- * Relative ( `\(Speaking_i - \bar{Speaking}\)` ) + Suitability ⇮ + Hypotheses: + <font color="red">Better</font> self-evaluation + <font color="blue">Less</font> enthusiasm in changing it + <font color="red">More</font> political trust --- # Research Design -- * Source: + Chinese General Social Survey 2010--15 -- * DV: + Mainstream attitudes (5) + Activism (6) + Self-evaluation (1) + **Political Trust** + National legislature, central government, local government, judiciary --- * IV: + Listening, speaking and relative proficiencies ( `\(\delta_{si} = s_i - \bar{s}.\)` ) + Demographic and socioeconomic controls (13) + Fixed effect (province, wave), post-stratification weights. --- background-image: url(image/trust.png) background-position: 50% 50% background-size: 100% # Results --- # Conclusion 1. Communication-based theory: A general understanding -- 1. New insight into public opinion --- class: inverse, center, middle # Thank you! <i class="fa fa-envelope fa-lg"></i> [yue-hu-1@uiowa.edu](mailto:yue-hu-1@uiowa.edu) <i class="fa fa-globe fa-lg"></i> https://sammo3182.github.io/ <i class="fab fa-github fa-lg"></i> [sammo3182](https://github.com/sammo3182) --- class: inverse, center, middle # Appendix --- ## New Case: Mainland China .left-column[ *Ethnicity* <img src="image/ethnicDist.png" width = 300 /> ] .right-column[ *Language* <img src="image/lanDist.jpg" width = 300 /> ] --- ## Reliability of Self-Report Official Language Proficiency <img src="image/selfReport.png" height = 400 /> --- ## Results ### Culture-based theory + aggregated measurement <img src="image/aggregate.png" width = 700 /> --- ## Results ### <del>Culture</del> Communicate-based theory + <del>aggregate</del> decomposed measurement: Listening <img src="image/listen.png" width = 750 /> --- ## Results ### Communicate-based theory + decomposed measurement: Speaking <img src="image/speak.png" width = 750 /> --- ## Results ### Communicate-based theory + decomposed measurement: Relative <img src="image/relative.png" height = 370 />