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What’s Wrong with Political Meritocracy [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This chapter examines three key problems associated with any attempt to implement political meritocracy: the problem of corruption, the problem of ossification, and the problem of legitimacy. Given that electoral democracy at the top is not politically realistic in China, the chapter asks whether it is possible to address these problems without ...
Daniel A. Bell
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Political Meritocracy and Democracy: Confucian Meritocratic Democracy? [PDF]

open access: yesSeries on Contemporary China, 2019
Political meritocracy and democracy: Confucian meritocratic ...
Baogang He
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Meritocracy and the Singapore Political System

Asian Journal of Political Science, 2009
Abstract A meritocracy presumes those with innate and demonstrated talent will be an elite. The implementation of meritocracy remains a guiding principle of the People's Action Party's (PAP) non-communist leaders who have governed Singapore since 1959. This article focuses on meritocracy, elected public officials and the PAP's recruiting to government ...
Thomas J Bellows
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Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies

Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2020
Confucian meritocratic rule has been recently advocated on the basis of the economic performance of Western democracies and the political ignorance of their average voters. These arguments are grounded in the analyses of real phenomena, but they are insufficient to establish the greater effectiveness of political meritocracy over democracy.
Elena Ziliotti
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The china model: political meritocracy and the limits of democracy [PDF]

open access: yesCambridge Review of International Affairs, 2015
Daniel Bell, a political philosopher based at Beijing’s prestigious Tsinghua University, previewed The China model in a series of op-eds about the merits of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) effo...
Bell, Daniel A.
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The Introversive Political Meritocracy: A Political Possibility Beyond “The End of History”

Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, 2018
The criticisms of the falsity of universal recognition carried out by leftists, led by Karl Max, and the queries of its desirability proposed by rightists, represented by Friedrich Nietzsche, raise challenges to Francis Fukuyama’s theory of “the end of history” from two opposite directions.
Guodong Sun
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