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9 - Technologies of Risk and Discipline in China’s Social Credit System

from Part II - Ideology and the Party in Law and Organisation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 December 2020

By
Adam Knight
Edited by
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers  and
Susan Trevaskes
Rogier J. E. H. Creemers
Affiliation:
Universiteit Leiden
Susan Trevaskes
Affiliation:
Griffith University, Queensland
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Summary

Adam Knight’s study on China’s social credit system examines how the Party-state is currently harnessing technology to automate processes for consolidating and expanding its power. Knight traces the development of the system from its origins as a ‘technology of risk’ in the financial services market to its current-day role as a disciplinary ‘technology of regulation’, in operation to realise a state-arbitered moral ideal. The social credit system has evolved in recent years on two fronts, organisationally and conceptually. Organisationally, social credit’s evolution reflects a movement in policy innovation and implementation from the centre to the periphery. Conceptually, social credit has developed from a narrow policy goal to an increasingly broad array of punishment and reward initiatives as part of a political move by the Party to promote the ideological spread of what Knight calls chengxin (诚信) culture (‘sincerity and honesty’ culture) under Xi Jinping.

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Chinasocial credit system; moralitysincerity and honestyXi Jinping
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Law and the Party in China
Ideology and Organisation
 , pp. 237 - 262
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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