To Become a Confucian Democratic Citizen
Against Meritocratic Elitism
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6228564 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kim (0000-0003-2291-5896, corresponding author), Sungmoon Kim |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 579-599 |
| Publication date | 2013-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | British Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0007-1234 • E-ISSN: 1469-2112 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0007123412000397 |
| OpenAlex | W2170895638 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 36 |
This article critiques the meritocratic justification of Confucian democracy from the standpoint of democratic civil society by shifting the focus fromgovernabilityof the people to theirtransformability. Its central claims are: (1) Confucian virtue politics (dezhi) can be creatively re-appropriated in a democratic civil society in terms of cultivating civility in ordinary people who belong to different moral communities; (2) in the modern East Asian social context, the Confucian ideal of benevolent government (ren zheng) can be attained better by the victims of socio-economic injustice contesting it democratically in the public space of civil society than by ‘thin’ democracy controlled by meritocratic elitism. ‘Confucian civil society’ operating on Confucian ritually mediated civility is an alternative to meritocratic elitism
Civic virtue · Civil society · Civility · Context (archaeology · Democracy · Democratic ideals · Elitism · Environmental ethics · Impartiality · Injustice · Meritocracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Public Administration
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| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,5 |
| Citation span | 2014 - 2025 (12) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |