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Yu, Haiqing; Creemers, Rogier (2025)

Automating governance in China? Data-driven systems in the scoring society

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This book considers the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems, and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China. It offers detailed studies of specific projects and applications that are automated or quasi-automated in organising and governing social, economic, and cultural lives in the world’s largest techno-authoritarian regime. Written by scholars from six countries across four continents, case studies illustrate new modes of digital governance employed by the Chinese government, as it interacts and collaborates with technology companies, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. They offer new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance, and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios. In a broader sense, the book contributes to global debates about the integration of decision-making technologies in...Show moreThis book considers the interplay between the affordances of technologies, the experiences and processes of technological systems, and the process of learning and adaptation by state actors as part of governance reform in China. It offers detailed studies of specific projects and applications that are automated or quasi-automated in organising and governing social, economic, and cultural lives in the world’s largest techno-authoritarian regime. Written by scholars from six countries across four continents, case studies illustrate new modes of digital governance employed by the Chinese government, as it interacts and collaborates with technology companies, ordinary citizens, and other key stakeholders. They offer new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance, and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios. In a broader sense, the book contributes to global debates about the integration of decision-making technologies in governmental practices.Show less
Automating governance
Data
Global digital China
Regulatory state
Scoring
Social governance
Editor(s)
Yu, Haiqing; Creemers, Rogier
Date
2025
Pages
1 - 240
Publisher
Leiden: Leiden University Press (LUP)
ISBN (print)
9789087284657
ISBN (electronic)
9789400605022
Note
'Automating Governance in China?' offers new insights on the deployment of automated decision-making in authoritarian governance and on its application and implementation in real-life scenarios.