China’S Digital Authoritarianism: A Governance Perspective (Politics And Development Of Contemporary China)

This book provides a governance perspective on China’s digital authoritarianism by examining the political and institutional dynamics of the country’s internet sector in a historical context. Using leading theories of authoritarian institutions, it discusses China’s approach to the internet and methods of implementation in terms of party-state institutions and policy processes. This provides a much-needed ‘inside out’ perspective on digital authoritarianism that avoids the perception of China as some coherent and static monolith. The study also offers a powerful rationale for China’s cyber sovereignty as an externalisation of its domestic internet governance framework and broader political-economic context. As China shifts from rule-taker to rule-maker in world politics, the Chinese Dream (zhongguo meng) is now going global. Beijing’s digital authoritarian toolkit is being promoted and exported to other authoritarian regimes, making China a major driver of digital repression at the global level.

• | Author: Monique Taylor
• | Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• | Publication Date: Aug 25, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 186 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Political Science
• | ISBN-10: 3031112512
• | ISBN-13: 9783031112515