China’s Digital Authoritarianism : A Governance Perspective / / by Monique Taylor

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910590053403321
• Autore: Taylor Monique
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783031112522; 3031112520
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (179 pages)
• Collana: Politics and Development of Contemporary China, , 2946-2363
• Disciplina: 302.231; 302.2310951
• Soggetti: Asia - Politics and government; Political science; Security, International; Economic development; Economics; Asian Politics; Governance and Government; International Security Studies; Development Studies; Political Economy and Economic Systems
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Building Digital Authoritarianism: From the Great Firewall to the New IP -- 2. Authoritarian Governance and China’s Party-Centric Model -- 3. Internet Governance during the Jiang Zemin and Hu Jintao Eras -- 4. Digital Authoritarianism in the Xi Jinping Era -- 5. A Party-Led Internet Economy -- 6. China’s Digital Authoritarianism Goes Global -- 7. Conclusion.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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. Monique Taylor is University Lecturer in World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.