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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. 

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9783031112515

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“China’s desire for leadership in the global and regional space attracts close attention of the international community to any internal problems in China, provoking their use for political purposes. … The analysis of the historical, theoretical, normative and empirical base of the study allowed the author of the book to consider digital authoritarianism … . As a result, the book formulates and systematizes the factors that characterize this model in its development, influencing the current state of Chinese constitutionalism.” (Vache Kalashyan, Journal of Political Science - Bulletin of Yerevan University, Vol. 2 (1), 2023) 

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Monique Taylor is University Lecturer in World Politics at the University of Helsinki, Finland.

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