Dimitar Gueorguiev brilliantly anticipated a question that would come to dominate the post-pandemic, post-Trump global scene: How did a coercive, censoring Leninist regime equip itself to handle the kind of shock that stunned democracies? In this truly eye-opening book, he details a provocative conclusion: the people themselves, whose participationDLwithout democracyDLhas become an active ingredient in fortifying Chinese techno-authoritarianism.
Dimitar D. Gueorguiev is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University.