Daniel A. Bell is Chair Professor of the Schwarzman Scholars program at Tsinghua University in Beijing and director of the Berggruen Institute of Philosophy and Culture. His books include Spirit of Cities, China's New Confucianism, Beyond Liberal Democracy, and East Meets West (all Princeton), and he is the editor of the Princeton-China Series.
Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. But the Chinese political model does not fit neatly in either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system that can best be described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do the ideals of political meritocracy set the standard for evaluating political progress (and regress) in China? How can China avoid the disadvantages of political meritocracy? And how can political meritocracy best be combined with democracy? Daniel Bell answers these questions and more.
Opening with a critique of "one person, one vote" as a way of choosing top leaders, Bell argues that Chinese-style political meritocracy can help to remedy the key flaws of electoral democracy. He discusses the advantages and pitfalls of political meritocracy, distinguishes between different ways of combining meritocracy and democracy, and argues that China has evolved a model of democratic meritocracy that is morally desirable and politically stable. Bell summarizes and evaluates the "China model"—meritocracy at the top, experimentation in the middle, and democracy at the bottom—and its implications for the rest of the world.
A timely and original book that will stir up interest and debate, The China Model looks at a political system that not only has had a long history in China, but could prove to be the most important political development of the twenty-first century.
The China Model The China Model: Political Meritocracy and the Limits of Democracy/ Daniel A. Bell/ Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press/ 2015 Introduction Political thinkers—from Confucius, Plato, and Zhu Xi to John Stuart Mill, Sun Yat-sen, and Walt...
评分转载自爱思想网http://www.aisixiang.com/data/106267.html 作者按:原载《文史哲》2017年第5期,第5-19页。原题为《通往极权之路——贝淡宁“贤能政治”批判》,刊发时编辑部改为此题。正文中某些地方的原文“极权”亦改为了“前现代”(这不符合本文的原意,笔者已经多次指出...
评分究竟什么样的政治,才能使一个国家得到安稳的发展,这是人们一直在追寻的问题。当然了,也是人们一直没有更好的答案的问题。我们现在说的这本书,就是这样的,是将政治的问题,表现在一本书当中的。说我们国家的政治,是民主的,但是,究竟是不是真正的民主,究竟是不是最好的...
评分记得很早以前就有过一场辩论,中国到底是应该实行一党专政多党参政的制度还是全盘西化的实行西方民主制。当时的辩论结果已经不可知,但是实践作为检验真理的唯一标准证明目前中国实行的政治制度完全符合我国现有的国情。而且改革开放近四十年来中国经济飞速发展,取得了其他国...
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评分全书主要是表达贝淡宁对选举制度的痛恨,这种痛恨导致他背叛了基本的道德准则。其实全书也没有阐明事实上有个什么样的China Model或Political Meritocracy的制度机制(因为这也是不可能的),大多数时候只是在谈理想ideal罢了,所以全书的论点和论证严重不符。理想与现实之间的反差甚至显得是在高级黑。学术形式很规范(但也很空洞),英语表达太纯正了(这就是本书能在西方引起关注的原因),我一辈子也无法达到这样的native speaker水平。。。
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评分一个外国人,毫无利己的动机,把中国的proagenda事业当作他自己的事业,这是什么精神?
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