Title: Solidarity Mobilization and Citizen Participation Effectiveness:The Case of Community Recycling Program
Abstract: This study introduces solidarity mobilization as a dis-incentivized strategy to motivate individuals towards collective-benefiting actions involving personal costs. The research aims to evaluate its effectiveness in promoting citizen participation in a community recycling program. Drawing on Rogers et al.’s (2018) framework, a comprehensive solidarity mobilization framework is constructed, encompassing five dimensions: personal (face-to-face guidance), accountable (sector collaboration), normative (information publicity), identity (symbolic rewards), and connected (social network). Analysis of survey data from 40 communities in eastern, central, and western China reveals that increased exposure to face-to-face guidance, multi-sector monitoring involvement, and inclusion of social activists result in higher waste classification progress rate among citizens. These findings hold true despite the additional time and privacy costs associated with garbage sorting and wrapping but without immediate personal benefits. However, information publicity and symbolic rewards do not significantly enhance citizens’ participation effectiveness. These findings demonstrate the practical potential of fostering solidarity relations among citizens, without coercion or material incentives, to induce behavioral change aligned with policy requirements.
Publication Year: 2023
Publication Date: 2023-01-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
Indexed In: ['crossref']
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