As a modern political civilization important variables, politicalparticipation has play a decisive role position. In modern society, mostcountries give citizens the right of equality, but due to the political system,economic development level, educational level and other factors, even in thesame society, culture, economic income, family background differences canalso lead to the differences of political participation. The pluralism of modernsociety makes different people in different forms, different attitudes towardsparticipation, different people opportunities to participate and will be completelydifferent, showing a different sense of political efficacy. Even in the samecountry, the circumstances of political participation, political efficacy is not thesame as. China private enterprise advocate because of its political attribute,quantity, has the economic resources and other factors, the politicalparticipation has aroused wide concern. As for this class of most smallbusiness owners don’t have big business owner ’s economic strength andsocial influence, their political participation and political efficacy has itsparticularity.This study adopts questionnaire investigation, interview and literatureresearch methods, focuses on small business owners political participationand political efficacy relationship and its influence factors. First of all, in theempirical basis, mainly from the political election, political engagement andpolitical association in three dimensions the small business owners politicalparticipation. Study found that small business owners lack the political power,participate in the goal and scope is limited, there is no active willingness topolitical participation, their political influence is also formed. Secondly, theUniversity of Michigan research center scale, from internal political efficacy andexternal political efficacy analysis of two small and medium enterprises themain political sense of political efficacy. On three dimensions of politicalparticipation and political efficacy analysis of relationship between found, political participation and political efficacy is closely related to. With high senseof political efficacy of small business owners more with political participationtendencies. Finally, a comparative analysis found that, the small andmedium-sized enterprise main political efficacy of felt age and gender,education, household registration, party identity and political cognitive factors.These factors on the internal political efficacy and external political efficacy ofinfluence is not exactly the same. Some factors can also affect these twoaspects, some factors affecting primarily one aspect.Small business owners political participation level still remains to rise.Excitation and political participation of owners of private enterprises, the key isto strengthen their sense of political efficacy. Sense of political efficacy is notcreated out of thin air, but with some experience or information as the basis,through to these information perception and processing and the formation of.Small and medium enterprises to improve the sense of political efficacy on theneed to improve them in the process of cognitive ability and" changeinformation source", is also the change of individual, political environment,thereby changing the internal political efficacy and external political efficacy. |