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China's Social Credit System (SCS) is regularly portrayed in media reports as a "total surveillance" dystopia. These narratives not only dangerously veil the real risks posed by surveillance technologies but also ignore the crucial innovation that the SCS brings to economic governance: The creation and use of trustworthiness assessments by regulators to inform administrative decisions and steer industries through reputational-management measures. To this end, a wide range of pilot projects are underway, including municipal social credit scores for residents and disciplinary measures for entities deemed untrustworthy. Amid official claims that social credit reinforces the law and scholarly criticism that it violates legal rights, this investigation draws on more than 650 central- and local-government policies and regulations, court decisions, standards, as well as interviews with SCS founders, implementers, and judges to explore the relationship between it and the older system of behavioral regulation and public law. The findings point to a complex construct that is conducive to realising the vision of socialist legality with the Communist Party of China at its centre: On the one hand, the SCS strengthens the law by solving long-standing enforcement problems and improving the transparency of corporate and government information. On the other, the SCS's mechanisms also violate fundamental principles of Chinese public law and blur the boundaries between it and private law in the country. Finally, the SCS is transforming the current legal order by politicising spaces of administrative and judicial discretion, systematically using the private sector for enforcement, and automating law through the project of a "new type of regulation based on credibility."
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Date:
03/06/2025 11:00 - 03/06/2025 12:00
Registration deadline:
03/06/2025
Event venue:
GIGA, Neuer Jungfernstieg 21, 22297 Hamburg, and online
20359 Hamburg
Hamburg
Germany
Target group:
Scientists and scholars, all interested persons
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Relevance:
international
Subject areas:
Economics / business administration, Politics, Social studies
Types of events:
Seminar / workshop / discussion
Entry:
02/21/2025
Sender/author:
Verena Schweiger
Department:
Fachabteilung Kommunikation
Event is free:
no
Language of the text:
German
URL of this event: http://idw-online.de/en/event78723
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