differently than in the US and the EU. The party-state is the (partial) owner of important companies and openly intervenes in the … authority. At the same time, the party-state organizes its rule through output legitimacy and functions in many respects as an … indicator-driven, meritocratic system. The expansion of hybrid Chinese party-state capitalism is therefore leading to a new …

discusses the role of the state as an agent of capital in general and media capital in particular. It discusses the role of the … state in privatisations, neoliberal deregulation, the formation of national com- petitive states, and various benefits that … the state provides for media capital. This contribution shows that capital and capitalism are the main structural …