Consultative Leninism: China's new political framework

Tsang, Steve

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“…Hu and Wen are not opening the system to competition, but they are definitely attempting to increase consultation ' (2008: 180). Indeed, the concept of 'consultative Leninism' has been applied to contemporary China (Tsang 2009), though apart from increased consultation, it is not clear why 'Leninism' should be preferable to 'authoritarianism' since, as noted earlier, the ideology of communism has been almost entirely abandoned.…”

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An Age of Limits

Schroeder

2013

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Section: Nascent Democracy?mentioning

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An Age of Limits

Schroeder

2013

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“…On the other hand, using democratization theory from a socio-centrism perspective, most of the research finds that autonomy and consultation gradually become governing instruments in China. This kind of autonomy and consultation is summarized as Consultative Leninism (Tsang 2009), Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0 (Mertha 2009), Authoritarian Deliberation (He and Thøgersen 2010;He andWarren 2011), or Consultative Authoritarianism (Harding 1987;He and Thøgersen 2010;Fewsmith 2013;Hildebrandt 2013). These studies began to keep a watchful eye on governments' behavior but failed to explain the mechanism and the process of government's behavior in authoritarian states, which is just like the parable of the blind men and the elephant or a wild profusion of new labels (Baum and Shevchenko 1999).…”

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Alienation of Civic Engagement in China? Case Studies on Social Governance in Hangzhou

Yang

Long

2015

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This article tries to map the state of civic engagement in social governance at local level in China. Using case studies in Hangzhou, we find that civic engagement in China has not increased responsiveness to citizens' appeals as predicted in democracy theories. In contrast, civic engagement degrades to a powerful tool for the government to rule the people, which we call the ''alienation of civic engagement.'' Institutional Isomorphism theory is evoked to explain this phenomenon. Based on the strength of regime stability and responsiveness to citizens' appeals, civic engagement is categorized into four types: ceremonial civic engagement, substantial civic engagement, absorptive civic engagement, and propagandistic civic engagement. We show the discourses, participation behaviors, and participation outcomes of each type of civic engagement. We also demonstrate how the authoritarian government developed strategies for each type of civic engagement.

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“…Authorities, on the other hand, seem to impose regulations on Internet providers to monitor online communication and to prevent protests from gaining traction (Qin, Strömberg & Wu, 2017). Chinese government's attempts to allow citizens to vent their anger as long as systemic problems are not explicitly addressed are referred to in the literature as 'consultative Leninism' (Tsang, 2009) and 'networked authoritarianism' (MacKinnon, 2011;Tsai, 2016).…”

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Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

Homburg¹

2019

Humanizing Technology for a Sustainable Society

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This paper reports on the analysis of results of a survey among Chinese citizens about their intended use of social media to interact with government agencies and associated motivations. Citizens' use intentions were found to be correlated with citizens' trust in officials, social influence (peer pressure) and anxiety, but not with trust in government. These results provide building blocks for an explanatory theory of citizens' use of social media to interact with government, especially in an authoritarian regime like China's system of public governance. This explanatory theory is consistent with an institutional perspective on technology use, in which use intentions and behaviours are explained by norms, practices and takenfor-granted assumptions, rather than by rational cost-benefit considerations. The paper is concluded with recommendations for comparative research on antecedents of social media in governmentcitizen relations in various governance systems.

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Consultative Leninism: China's new political framework

Cited by 94 publications

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An Age of Limits

An Age of Limits

Alienation of Civic Engagement in China? Case Studies on Social Governance in Hangzhou

Trust, fear and social influence: on the use of social media in China’s authoritarian governance regime

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