Новые аспекты безопасности: установки граждан по вопросу информационного регулирования в России

Политическая наука. 2024. № 2. С. 326–347.

Bocharova A.

The effectiveness of government policies to ensure cybersecurity and information security directly depends on how successfully such measures are followed by citizens at the national level. Within the framework of this study, the influence of cognitive-rational, value-affective, and socio-demographic factors on respondents' support for government policy in the field of information regulation is considered through selected cases of regulating social networks and introducing a mandatory face recognition system in public transport. In the course of the study, a factorial survey (N=395) was conducted using vignettes that allow us to examine the effects of framing on respondents' perception of the proposed measures. The analysis of the experimental results in this study showed that framing news to persuade the population to support the proposed measures in the short term does not lead to an increase in support for the measures. However, certain factors influencing public perception, such as civic identity, trust in the political system, and assessment of the danger of cyber threats, show less variability over time. The results of the study allow us to confirm the hypothesis of a direct connection between civic identity and support for restrictive measures, as well as partially confirm the assumption that the political trust of citizens and the specifics of perception of cyber threats positively influence support for the introduction of measures. In addition, an interesting result was obtained related to the heterogeneity of support for government measures at various levels of political trust of respondents, which allows us to identify the further potential of research on public perception of such measures, taking into account trust in the political system and individual political actors (government, special services, army, etc.) in Russia.

Keywords: информационная безопасность, political support, политическая поддержка, information security