The “Public”/“Private” Debate: How does the Preference Cognition Structure Influence the Creation of Public Issues?

Abstract

Abstract: The cognition on “the public” and “the private” is a precondition to cause citizens' cognition differences between public domain and private domain. It is featured with the fuzziness of the boundary, the situationality and the structuredness. Considering the cognition on “the public” and “the private” in the process of historical evolution, we divide citizens' preference cognition structures into four types: selfish type, separate type, mixed type and moral-dominated type, and based on it, try to construct a theoretical framework and then analyze whether citizens' preference cognition structures cause the cognitive differences on different public issues. By conducting hypothesis tests according to the data from CGSS2015, we concludes that, citizens' preference cognition structures on “the public” and “the private” are different; the cognitive preference on public domain and private domain and the four citizens' preference cognition structures significantly influence the recognition on social effectiveness-type issues and governmental responsibility-type issues.

Key words: public domain, private domain, preference cognition, public issues

Lang Mei, Jian Nantao. The “Public”/“Private” Debate: How does the Preference Cognition Structure Influence the Creation of Public Issues?[J]. Management Review, 2021, 33(2): 298-310.

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