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8 - China and India

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 November 2023

Andrew Wilson
Andrew Wilson
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University College London
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Summary

China has little public politics. But political technology overlaps with authoritarian methods of social and information control. In India, the world's biggest democracy, the BJP has developed mass participatory propaganda to build a Hindu national state since 2015.

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ChinaGreat Firewallsocial credit schemeBJPNarendra ModiNamoWhatsAppdigital authoritarianism
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Political Technology
The Globalisation of Political Manipulation
 , pp. 365 - 402
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2023

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  • China and India
  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.010
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  • China and India
  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.010
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  • China and India
  • Andrew Wilson, University College London
  • Book: Political Technology
  • Online publication: 30 November 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009355308.010
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