Democratization, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown, С. 1 - 28
Опубликована: Фев. 18, 2025
Язык: Английский
The Journal of Economic Perspectives, Год журнала: 2017, Номер 31(1), С. 117 - 140
Опубликована: Янв. 30, 2017
In this paper, we document basic facts regarding public debates about controversial political issues on Chinese social media. Our documentation is based a dataset of 13.2 billion blog posts published Sina Weibo—the most prominent microblogging platform—during the 2009–2013 period. primary finding that shockingly large number highly sensitive topics were and circulated For instance, find millions discussing protests, these are informative in predicting occurrence specific events. We an even larger with explicit corruption allegations, predict future charges individuals. findings challenge popular view authoritarian regime would relentlessly censor or ban Instead, interaction government media seems more complex.
Язык: Английский
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Science Advances, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 8(10)
Опубликована: Март 9, 2022
Repression research examines the causes and consequences of actions or policies that are meant to, actually do, raise costs activism, protest, and/or social movement activity. The rise digital media has brought substantial increases in attention to repression activists movements use tools repression, which is spread across many disciplines areas study. We organize review this growing welter under concept by expanding a typology distinguishes based on actor type, whether overt covert, behaviors shaped coercion channeling. This delineation between broadly different forms allows researchers develop expectations about better understand what "new" terms explanatory factors, repression.
Язык: Английский
Процитировано
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Comparative Political Studies, Год журнала: 2020, Номер 53(10-11), С. 1690 - 1703
Опубликована: Март 23, 2020
A growing body of research has studied how autocratic regimes interfere with internet communication to contain challenges their rule. In this review article, we survey the literature and identify most important directions for future research. We structure our along different network layers, each which provides particular ways governmental influence control. While current made much progress in understanding individual digital tactics, argue that there is still a need theoretical development empirical progress. First, more comprehensive tactics fit into an overall strategy, but also they interact traditional, “offline” means politics, such as cooptation or repression. Second, discuss number needs address, effectiveness problem attribution, tool dependence existing
Язык: Английский
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Current History, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 120(827), С. 207 - 213
Опубликована: Авг. 23, 2021
China’s economic model, commonly described as “state capitalist,” is now better characterized party-state capitalism, in which the political survival of Communist Party trumps developmental goals. Its tools for managing economy include not only state ownership and market interventions, but increasing use power to discipline private capital. entrepreneurs are expected adhere party line, foreign corporations operating country. The shift fueling a backlash from governments that view fusion interests China threat their own national security.
Язык: Английский
Процитировано
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Studies in Comparative International Development, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 56(1), С. 45 - 67
Опубликована: Март 1, 2021
Data has become one of the most valuable assets for governments and firms. Yet, we still have a limited understanding how data reshapes international economic relations. This paper explores various aspects politics through lens China's digital rise country's global engagement. I start with theoretical premise that differs from traditional strategic (e.g., land, oil, labor), in it is nonrival partially excludable. These characteristics generated externality, commitment, valuation problems, triggering three fundamental changes external First, data's externality problem makes necessary states to regulate or even pursue sovereignty. However, clashes over sovereignty can ignite conflicts between China other countries. Second, commitment use raises concerns about foreign government surveillance. As easier transfer across borders than physical commodities, Chinese tech companies' investments abroad are vulnerable national security investigations by regulators. companies, therefore, confront "deep versus broad" dilemma: deep ties help promote their domestic business but jeopardize expansion. Lastly, measures GDP) ill-suited measure relative strengths world's economies, which may distort perceptions states.
Язык: Английский
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Journal of Economic Literature, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 62(2), С. 594 - 636
Опубликована: Июнь 1, 2024
We survey recent theoretical and empirical literature on political economics of non-democracies. Nondemocratic regimes face multiple challenges to their rule, both internal, such as palace coups or breakdown support coalition, external, mass protests revolutions. analyze strategic decisions made by dictators from the standpoint maximizing chances regime survival in light these challenges, show how it explains common patterns, hiring loyalists positions that require competence, restricting media freedom at cost sacrificing bureaucratic efficiency, running propaganda campaigns, organizing election fraud, purging opponents associates, repressing citizens. (JEL D72, D73, D82, D83, L82, O17)
Язык: Английский
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Journal of Chinese Political Science, Год журнала: 2025, Номер unknown
Опубликована: Фев. 20, 2025
Язык: Английский
Процитировано
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The Journal of Politics, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 84(4), С. 2230 - 2245
Опубликована: Ноя. 30, 2021
Critics see China’s social credit system (SCS) as a tool of surveillance and repression. Yet opinion surveys in China find considerable public support for the SCS. We explain this puzzle by focusing on citizens’ lack knowledge regarding repressive nature digital dictatorships, which can be attributed to (1) invisible targeted repression associated with (2) government propaganda censorship further concealing its potential. A field survey experiment 750 college students three Chinese regions shows that revealing SCS’s potential significantly reduces system, but emphasizing social-order-maintenance function does not increase support. Observational evidence from nationwide 2,028 netizens show is higher if citizens knew about SCS through state media. Our findings highlight role information framing shaping surveillance.
Язык: Английский
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Governance, Год журнала: 2021, Номер 35(2), С. 497 - 523
Опубликована: Апрель 1, 2021
Abstract How do regimes employ information to govern society and maintain control? Recent scholarship argues that legibility is a fundamental component of state capacity, but the politics collection use remain incompletely understood. This article examines how local in China uses amplify bolster social control. Extant literature focuses largely on , Chinese officials have adopted high‐tech management platforms solve different issue: inadequate integration across bureaucracies (“information islands”). Information strengthen state's ability by enhancing intra‐bureaucratic accountability improving demobilize contention. At policy level, adoption these has implications for party‐state's ambitions stability; their global spread could affect trends governance worldwide. Theoretically, our findings indicate depends not just collect information, integrate it as well.
Язык: Английский
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The China Journal, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 88, С. 2 - 28
Опубликована: Май 23, 2022
To develop a robust surveillance apparatus in the digital age, autocracies are compelled to rely on foreign suppliers or allow domestic private entrepreneurs enter strategic industrial sector. The process through which China developed state led by globally competitive security companies exemplifies this authoritarian capitalist dynamic. Initial liberalization enabled firms adapt technology and eventually introduce innovations surveillance. By late 2000s, had vibrant segmented industry: homegrown giants with most advanced dominated public procurement contracts export markets, while smaller medium-size enterprises were creating intrusive monitoring applications that go well beyond what originally envisioned. Because China's rests strong public-private linkages, assumed alliance between capitalists despotic has generated external backlash from liberal democratic countries. Global supply chains involving sensitive have remained resilient, however.
Язык: Английский
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