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This article analyses from a cultural perspective why, despite exacerbating income inequality, Chinese people are not in favour of income equality. I argue that the patriotic education campaign initiated in the 1990s encouraged citizens to sacrifice for the greater good of China and caused the Chinese to accept and adapt to a decrease in governmental welfare as well as lessening the demand for it, thus reducing the government's financial burden of welfare provision. I then test the hypothesis against the Asian Barometer Survey data. The statistical results support my assertion, suggesting that strong patriotic beliefs reduce the preference for social equality, and that private income and economic perspectives do not significantly stimulate the public demand for redistributive policies in China. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This manuscript sets out to examine whether the complicated structure of semipresidentialism hinders the identifiability of government accountability. By analyzing the Global Barometer Survey data, we find that citizens can observe the distribution of political powers between the president and the prime minister and hold the actual executive head liable for government policy by identifying whether the president is capable of controlling a majority in the legislative branch. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]