[governance] Three Pillars of Chinese Governance

[Thomas Lowenhaupt]

An op-ed in Today's New York Times might be of interest to this list - a 
different type of 
multi-stakeholderism.<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion>

It starts as follows:


  A Confucian Constitution for China


            By JIANG QING and DANIEL A. BELL

ON Monday, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton gave a speech in 
Mongolia <http://m.state.gov/md194696.htm>denouncing Asian governments 
that seek "to restrict people's access to ideas and information, to 
imprison them for expressing their views, to usurp the rights of 
citizens to choose their leaders." It was a swipe at China 
<http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/international/countriesandterritories/china/index.html?inline=nyt-geo>'s 
authoritarian political system. The view that China should become more 
democratic is widely held in the West. But framing the debate in terms 
of democracy versus authoritarianism overlooks better possibilities.

For Op-Ed, follow @nytopinion <https://twitter.com/#%21/nytopinion> and 
to hear from the editorial page editor, Andrew Rosenthal, follow 
@andyrNYT <https://twitter.com/#%21/andyrNYT>.

The political future of China is far likelier to be determined by the 
longstanding Confucian tradition of "humane authority" than by 
Western-style multiparty elections. After all, democracy is flawed as an 
ideal. Political legitimacy is based solely on the sovereignty of the 
people --- more specifically, a government that grants power to 
democratically elected representatives. But there is no compelling 
reason for a government to have only one source of legitimacy.

and finishes here - 
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion. 
<http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/11/opinion/a-confucian-constitution-in-china.html?ref=opinion>

Tom


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