Mainland Chinese and Canadian adolescents’ judgments and reasoning about the fairness of democratic and other forms of government |
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Authors: | Charles C. Helwig Mary Louise Arnold Dingliang Tan Dwight Boyd |
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Affiliation: | 1. University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont., Canada;2. Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China |
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Abstract: | This study examined the judgments and reasoning of adolescents (ages 12–19 years) from three sites in urban and rural China (n = 270) and in an urban Canadian comparison sample (n = 72), about the fairness of various forms of democratic and non-democratic government. Adolescents from both China and Canada preferred democratic forms of government, such as representative or direct democracy, to non-democratic systems, such as a meritocracy and an oligarchy of the wealthy, at all ages. Adolescents appealed to fundamental democratic principles, such as representation, voice, and majority rule, to justify their judgments. Similar age-related patterns in judgments and reasoning were found across cultures and across diverse settings within China. |
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Keywords: | Democracy Moral development China Social reasoning |
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