Open AccessBIOPOLITICS AS AN ASPECT OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION IN NON-LIBERAL POLITICAL REGIMES (ON THE EXAMPLE OF THE PRC)
Author(s) -
Nikolai Vladimirovich Kshevin,
Olga Simonenko
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
respublica literaria
Language(s) - English
DOI - 10.47850/rl.2021.2.2.86-97
Subject(s) - biopower , politics , governmentality , corporate governance , state (computer science) , china , political science , sociology , population , administration (probate law) , political economy , law , economics , demography , finance , algorithm , computer science
The article focuses on the potential applicability of biopolitics to modern elements of public administration in non-liberal political regimes on the example of China. M. Foucault's biopolitics is a rather difficult concept to use for the analysis of modern countries of the East due to the initial connection of the concept to the Western intellectual tradition. Based on analysis of the various researches in biopolitics, we propose to look further into strategies for expanding the concept to determine the most suitable for the study of public administration in non-liberal political regimes on the example of the PRC. It is noted that modern China, being an example of a non-liberal political regime, has signs of biopolitical state governance. It is concluded that biopolitics as a technology of power over the population is not an exclusive part of liberal governance.