Sergei Guriev | Spin dictators

[@shane_rm1025]

@randomdude this talk is specifically about authoritarians that pretend to be democratic. China doesn't even pretend, hence their exclusion.

[@randomdude7384]

Nor does Russia.

[@apl-ri1dh]

Сергей Маратович красавчик капитальный

[@Dedmakey]

China is covered at 49:30

[@fern8580]

too many laws kill the rule of law in France : In 2002, according to the Council of State in France , the applicable law in France comprised 52,207 articles of law and 161,995 regulatory articles. Eight years later, in 2020, these figures reached 86,521 and 236,781 respectively, an increase of 65% for legal texts and nearly 46% for regulatory texts. In short, the sectors of health, security (army + police), education have taken power to their advantage. too many laws kill the rule of law

[@randomdude7384]

How come Xi's not on the list? 11:55

[@andrewzhao1976]

I guess because the original paper is written in 2015 and published in 2020.

[@randomdude7384]

@@andrewzhao1976 Or is it because one is forbidden from criticizing China on KZbin?

[@andrewzhao1976]

Sorry, I think based on the book, Xi is more like a hi-tech armed hybrid dictator (more towards the old-fashioned fear dictator, unlike Deng, Jiang, and Hu).

[@andrewzhao1976]

And the Chinese Dictatorship model is actually quite interesting, it's a shame that it's not discussed more in the paper and in the book. The spin dictatorship sounds very much like politics in China in the last 20 to 30 years. Now after the 20th CCP meeting, Xi seems to have over-through every norm out of the window. I wonder what happens next.

[@andrewzhao1976]

@@randomdude7384 I don't think one is forbidden from criticizing China on KZbin since youtube is blocked in China.

[@randomdude7384]

21:51 I can not believe Xi's not on the list!

[@randomdude7384]

How come China's not on the list and, I'd assume, not in the book? Has that got to do with the fact UBS has business/investment interests in China? Such unspeakable levels of hypocrisy.

[@jamesstmanhattan]

And China, of course, doesn't have censorship, doesn't have any camps, nor does it have all the other nice things from the playbook?