"Strategic Political Interaction: The Use of Political Discourse by Internet Users and the Model of Government Response"

Policy Description: With the development of the Internet, the network has increasingly become an important platform for interaction between the public and the government. This article takes the local government's message board of the People's Daily as an example to explore the expression behavior patterns of the public on the network platform and the government's response model. This study collected 210,000 posts from 2008 to 2014, and analyzed the use of discourse in the expression of online opinions from the perspectives of identity and political value orientation. The public is more willing to use the collective identity expression (internal collective discourse) related to work, place of residence, etc., rather than using individual discourse or more grand collective identity (pan-group discourse) to express appeals, the government's response to internal collective discourse is higher than The latter two. In terms of political value orientation, democratic discourse, sinister discourse and mixed discourse coexist, democratic discourse is more than sinister discourse, government has the highest response to sinister discourse, democratic discourse is second, and non-oriented discourse is the lowest. In short, netizens have the potential to express their demands strategically. The demands of internal collective discourse, sinister discourse or democratic discourse have all raised the government's response.

Contributed by Li Feng Peking University School of Government Management Meng Tianguang Department of Political Science, Tsinghua University