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Why China Needs Democracy
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A Realist Defense Of Constitutional Democracy In China That Challenges The Assumptions Of The SoCalled China Modelwith Liberal Democracies Under Strain And The Chinese Government Delivering Stability And Prosperity To Its Citizens, Is Democracy Still An Ideal Worth Pursuing In China? In Why China Needs Democracy, Dongxian Jiang Makes A Powerful Case For Constitutional Democracy In The Chinese Context. Doing So, He Challenges The SoCalled China Model, A Normative Vision That Seeks To Preserve ChinaS Meritocratic OneParty System While Making It More Open, More Participatory, And Less Repressive. Jiang Offers Instead A Realist Defense Of Constitutional Democracy That Is Grounded In A ClearEyed Analysis Of ChinaS Political Realities, A Discerning Critique Of PostMao Moral And Institutional Problems, And A Broad Engagement With The Findings Of Empirical Political Science On Both Democratic And Authoritarian Regimes.Jiang Shows That The China Model Fails On Two Realist Grounds: It Places Unwarranted Faith In The Willingness Of ChinaS Leadership To Liberalize And Share Power With Citizens; And Even With Limited PowerSharing, The System Would Be Unable To Address One Of ChinaS Deepest ProblemsThe StateS Unchecked Domination Over Ordinary People. For All Its Flaws, Constitutional Democracy Remains An Indispensable Framework For Limiting The StateS Authoritarian Overreach. Jiang Argues That When Realism Is Understood In A More Expansive, Historically Grounded WayNot Simply As ShortTerm Political FeasibilityConstitutional Democracy In China Can Be Seen To Be A Realistic And Necessary Path Forward Over The Long Term.
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