Authoritarian Capitalist Ideology

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An Authoritarian Capitalist Ideology is an Economic-Political Ideology that combines a capitalist ideology with an authoritarian ideology.



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2021

  • Yuen Yuen Ang. (2018). “Autocracy With Chinese Characteristics - Beijing’s Behind-the-Scenes Reforms.” In Foreign Affairs, May/June 2018
    • QUOTE: ... If anything, under the current regime of President Xi Jinping, the Chinese government appears more authoritarian, not less. ..

      ... As Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad put it in 1992, “authoritarian stability” has enabled prosperity, whereas democracy has brought “chaos and increased misery.” But not all autocracies deliver economic success. In fact, some are utterly disastrous, including China under Mao. ...

      ... Chinese politics, therefore, requires first and foremost an appreciation of China’s bureaucracy. That bureaucracy is composed of two vertical hierarchies — the party and the state — replicated across the five levels of government: central, provincial, county, city, and township. These crisscrossing lines of authority produce what the China scholar Kenneth Lieberthal has termed a “matrix” structure. In formal organizational charts, the party and the state are separate entities, with Xi leading the party and Premier Li Keqiang heading up the administration and its ministries. In practice, however, the two are intertwined. The premier is also a member of the Politburo Standing Committee, the party’s top body, which currently has seven members. And at the local level, officials often simultaneously hold positions in both hierarchies. For example, a mayor, who heads the administration of a municipality, is usually also the municipality’s deputy chief of party. Moreover, officials frequently move between the party and the state. For instance, mayors may become party secretaries and vice versa. ...

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