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Retrofitting Leninism : participation without democracy in China / Dimitar D. Gueorguiev.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gueorguiev, Dimitar D., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich, 1870-1924--Political and social views.
- Lenin, Vladimir Ilʹich.
- Political participation--China.
- Political participation.
- Political culture--China.
- Political culture.
- Democracy--China.
- Democracy.
- China--Politics and government.
- China.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half title
- Retrofitting Leninism ParticipationWithout Democracy in China
- Copyright
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Preface
- Introduction
- The Party and the People
- ParticipationWithout Democracy
- The Plan of the Book
- PART I THEORY AND ORIGINS OF INCLUSIVE CONTROL IN CHINA
- 1. Blending Control and Inclusion
- Governing Under Autocracy
- Theoretical Illustration
- Updating Leninism in China
- 2. Foundations of Controlled Inclusion
- Historical Roots
- Political Legacies
- Maoist Characteristics
- Selective Reform
- From Past to Present
- PART II CONNECTING INPUTS WITH OUTPUTS
- 3. Participation in Oversight
- The Problem of Oversight
- Network Supervision
- Whistleblower Effects
- Integrating Supervision
- 4. Participation in Planning
- Structured Consultation
- Trial Balloons
- Gauging Public Opinion
- 5. Processing Public Inputs
- Information Processing
- Structured Representation
- Prioritization
- Representation by Design
- PART III DOWNSTREAM POLICY IMPLICATIONS
- 6. Policy Stability and Avoiding Blunders
- Soliciting Public Input
- Downstream Stability
- No Need for Speed
- 7. Spending Together
- Rebuilding Trust
- An Unlikely Experiment
- Finding a Balance
- 8. Remote Control
- From Hardware to Software
- Passive Control
- The Political Disconnect in Technical Control
- Conclusion
- Double Hedging for the Future
- A China Model
- FinalThoughts
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version
- ISBN:
- 0-19-755570-5
- 9780197555705
- 0-19-755568-3
- 9780197555682
- 9780197555699
- OCLC:
- 1273982379
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