Descripción del proyecto
Gobernanza digital en la China autoritaria
Las ciudades inteligentes están ganando popularidad en todo el mundo. Más de la mitad de las mil ciudades inteligentes del mundo están en China. Dado que china es un Estado autoritario, la aparición de ciudades cuyos Gobiernos están comenzando a experimentar con tecnologías digitales reviste especial interés para el estudio de la gobernanza digital en sociedades autoritarias. El proyecto financiado con fondos europeos DigitalGovernance estudiará y discernirá las prácticas de la gobernanza digital en la China autoritaria y la interacción entre el Gobierno, las empresas y los ciudadanos en la toma de decisiones locales de las ciudades inteligentes. Utilizará un marco de economía política y análisis del ciclo de políticas para estudiar las formas de gobernanza digital local, explorar los mecanismos de integración de la tecnología digital en la toma de decisiones locales y evaluar sus repercusiones en los ciudadanos, las empresas y el Estado.
Objetivo
As new information technologies and the advent of “big data” are reshaping societies around the globe, inquiries into the nature and varieties of digital governance and their consequences become increasingly urgent. “Smart cities” are mushrooming particularly quickly in China, which is home to more than half of the more than 1,000 smart cities worldwide. These city governments have begun to experiment with digital technologies to harness the power of big data analytics for governing society. Emerging practices have momentous implications for the organisation of social, political and economic life in China and globally. A systematic study has yet to address the lacking empirical and conceptual understanding of digitalising governance practices in authoritarian China.
The project seizes a unique opportunity to witness “natural experiments” of digital government modes as they emerge from China’s advanced smart cities. A political economy framework and policy cycle analysis will be used to study the interplay between government, businesses and citizens in local decision-making as digital technologies are increasingly integrated into the process. Through mixed-method, the project will achieve three objectives:
1. Study the variation in local digital governance modes and understand why these modes evolved in different ways.
2. Explore the mechanisms through which digital technologies are integrated into local decision-making processes and governance structures.
3. Assess the impacts of new digital governance modes for citizens, businesses and the state.
Findings will generate new empirical data, on the basis of which it will be possible to push the conceptualisation of emerging digital governance modes and the assessment of their benefits and risks. The project will significantly add to the field of digital governance in authoritarian states and will contribute to debates reaching beyond the China context about societal change under advancing digitalisation.
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitución de acogida
14195 Berlin
Alemania