[governance] Three Pillars of Chinese Governance

[Rui Correia]

Did I read this right?
".... a government that grants power to democratically elected
representatives."?

I thought it was the people that grant 'democratically elected'
representatives the power to from a government ....

Rui

On 11 July 2012 18:59, Thomas Lowenhaupt <toml at communisphere.com> wrote:

>  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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