IF 0.8 Q2 AREA STUDIES
Hans H. Tung, Wen-Chin Wu
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本文评估了比较威权主义文献的进展和影响,不仅展示了它在过去二十年的发展如何帮助我们更好地理解中国的威权主义政治,而且还展示了后者如何推动前者向前发展。我们关注文献中的两个重要主题领域:威权权力分享和信息专制政治(例如,部分媒体自由和政府审查)。最后,本文还评估了威权主义信息政治的相关文献与中国语境的相关性。
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What Can Comparative Authoritarianism Tell Us About China Under Xi Jinping (and Vice Versa)?
This paper evaluates the progress and impact of the literature on comparative authoritarianism, showing not only how its development over the previous two decades can help us understand China’s authoritarian politics better, but also how the latter can move the former forward. We focus on two important topic areas in the literature: authoritarian power-sharing and autocratic politics of information (e.g., partial media freedom and government censorship). For the first topic, we shall review the literature on the authoritarian power-sharing between dictators and their allies and explicate how this conceptual innovation helps us understand the institutional foundation of China’s regime stability and phenomenal economic performance before Xi Jinping. The analysis then provides us a baseline for assessing China’s economic and political future under Xi Jinping given his clear departure from the pre-existing power-sharing framework. Finally, this paper also assesses the relevance of the literature on authoritarian politics of information to the Chinese context. In sum, we not only emphasize the conceptual contributions of the literature of comparative authoritarianism to the field of Chinese politics, but also identify lacunae in the current literature and avenues for future research that post-Xi political developments have made visible to us.
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ISSUES & STUDIES
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期刊介绍: ISSUES & STUDIES (ISSN 1013-2511) is published quarterly by the Institute of International Relations, National Chengchi University, Taipei. IS is an internationally peer-reviewed journal dedicated to publishing quality social science research on issues ¨C mainly of a political nature ¨C related to the domestic and international affairs of contemporary China, Taiwan, and East Asia, as well as other closely related topics. The editors particularly welcome manuscripts related to China and Taiwan.
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