The East Asian Challenge for Democracy Bell Li Hardback 9781107038394

The East Asian Challenge for DemocracyPolitical Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective\nAuthor(s): Daniel A. Bell, Chenyang Li\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781107038394, 978-1107038394\nSynopsis\nThe rise of China, along with problems of governance in democratic countries, has reinvigorated the theory of political meritocracy. But what is the theory of political meritocracy and how can it set standards for evaluating political progress (and regress)? To help answer these questions, this volume gathers a series of commissioned research papers from an interdisciplinary group of leading philosophers, historians and social scientists. The result is the first book in decades to examine the rise (or revival) of political meritocracy and what it will mean for political developments in China and the rest of the world. Despite its limitations, meritocracy has contributed much to human flourishing in Ea.