Dimitar Gueorguiev

Retrofitting Leninism

Participation Without Democracy in China

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Produktbeschreibung

Retrofitting Leninism explains how modern Leninist regimes elicit and process bottom-up information from citizens in the service of top-down authoritarian control and public administration. The book revolves around the modern Chinese Communist Party and its use of information technology to augment legacy institutions for social and political control. While the empirical focus of the book is on contemporary China, the analysis also builds on a historical and comparative understanding of state and society relations under authoritarianism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 158mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 380g
• ISBN-13: 9780197555675
• ISBN-10: 0197555675
• Artikelnr.: 62109864

Autorenporträt

Dimitar D. Gueorguiev is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
The Party and the People
Participation without Democracy
Plan of the Book
Chapter 1: Blending Control and Inclusion
Governing Under Autocracy
Theoretical Illustration
Updating Leninism in China
Chapter 2: Foundations of Controlled Inclusion
Historical Roots
Political Legacies
Maoist Characteristics
Selective Reform
Chapter 3: Participation in Oversight
Feedback Control
Network Supervision
Whistleblower Effects
Chapter 4: Participation in Planning
Structured Consultation
Trial Balloons
Gauging Public Opinion
Chapter 5: Bottom-Up Information Processing
Information Processing
Structured Representation
Prioritization
Chapter 6: Policy Stability and Blunders
Soliciting Public Input
Downstream Stability
No Need for Speed
Chapter 7: Spending Together
Rebuilding Trust
An Unlikely Experiment
Grassroots Connection
Chapter 8: Remote Control
From Hardware to Software
Passive Control
Disconnected
Chapter 9: Conclusion
Double Hedging for the Future
A China Model
Final Thoughts