China’s Digital Authoritarianism

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

• 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.

“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)