Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province
Rural revitalization cannot be achieved without effective governance. Using the Oprobit model, instrumental variables, moderating-effects model and mediating-effects model, this study investigated the impact of participation in rural digital governance on high-quality grassroots political trust and...
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| author | Jiawei Wang Jiawei Wang Kejian Liu Ruolan Yuan Xia Kuang Hailan Qiu |
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| description | Rural revitalization cannot be achieved without effective governance. Using the Oprobit model, instrumental variables, moderating-effects model and mediating-effects model, this study investigated the impact of participation in rural digital governance on high-quality grassroots political trust and its mechanism using micro-survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province. This study demonstrated that participation in rural digital governance significantly enhances grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers, and both robustness and endogeneity tests yielded consistent conclusions. Further analysis revealed that organizational membership and human expenditure play positive and negative moderating roles, respectively, in the impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers, and that there are differences in the identity of rural elites in the facilitating effect of participation. Mechanism analysis revealed that participation in rural digital governance promotes grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers by enhancing their subjective social status, and its effect accounts for 11.8% of the total effects. Accordingly, policy recommendations should be made to increase the promotion of rural digital governance, strengthen farmers’ participation and supervision, enhance transparency and effectiveness, support the membership of high-quality farmers’ organizations, reduce the burden of favors and promote overall trust. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-ad184d67c0e44d4587255ec8ae8eefd82025-08-20T03:29:30ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems2571-581X2025-07-01910.3389/fsufs.2025.15433541543354Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi ProvinceJiawei Wang0Jiawei Wang1Kejian Liu2Ruolan Yuan3Xia Kuang4Hailan Qiu5School of Economics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, ChinaDigital Faculty of Economics, Jiangxi Open University, Nanchang, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, ChinaSchool of Economics, Management and Law, Jiangxi Normal University of Science and Technology, Nanchang, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, ChinaSchool of Economics and Management, Jiangxi Agricultural University, Nanchang, ChinaRural revitalization cannot be achieved without effective governance. Using the Oprobit model, instrumental variables, moderating-effects model and mediating-effects model, this study investigated the impact of participation in rural digital governance on high-quality grassroots political trust and its mechanism using micro-survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province. This study demonstrated that participation in rural digital governance significantly enhances grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers, and both robustness and endogeneity tests yielded consistent conclusions. Further analysis revealed that organizational membership and human expenditure play positive and negative moderating roles, respectively, in the impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers, and that there are differences in the identity of rural elites in the facilitating effect of participation. Mechanism analysis revealed that participation in rural digital governance promotes grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers by enhancing their subjective social status, and its effect accounts for 11.8% of the total effects. Accordingly, policy recommendations should be made to increase the promotion of rural digital governance, strengthen farmers’ participation and supervision, enhance transparency and effectiveness, support the membership of high-quality farmers’ organizations, reduce the burden of favors and promote overall trust.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1543354/fullrural digital governancehigh-quality farmersgrassroots political trustsubjective social statusorganizational accessionhuman expenditure |
| spellingShingle | Jiawei Wang Jiawei Wang Kejian Liu Ruolan Yuan Xia Kuang Hailan Qiu Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems rural digital governance high-quality farmers grassroots political trust subjective social status organizational accession human expenditure |
| title | Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province |
| title_full | Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province |
| title_fullStr | Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province |
| title_full_unstemmed | Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province |
| title_short | Impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high-quality farmers—analysis using survey data from 899 high-quality farmers in Jiangxi Province |
| title_sort | impact of participation in rural digital governance on grassroots political trust among high quality farmers analysis using survey data from 899 high quality farmers in jiangxi province |
| topic | rural digital governance high-quality farmers grassroots political trust subjective social status organizational accession human expenditure |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fsufs.2025.1543354/full |
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