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Dados Biográficos
| ID | 36545 |
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| NOME | B He |
| PRENOMES | B |
| SOBRENOME | He |
| ASSINATURA | HE B |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8098-9223 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 97 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 618 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 97 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 13 |
Defending security through diversity
The Logic of Randomness
Lottocratic theorists present the logic of randomness as inherently positive and beneficial, forming the conceptual foundation of lottocratic democracy. This paper challenges this narrow interpretation by offering an alternative perspective on the logic of randomness. Using a process-oriented approach, it examines the practical workings of the random selection process to provide a more nuanced understanding. It highlights the inherent problems of…
Chinese Gen-Z’s incidental news consumption in an algorithm-driven social media environment and their perceptions of India
Chinese Gen-Z’s incidental news consumption in an algorithm-driven social media environment and their perceptions of India
Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015
The Australia in World Affairs series commenced in 1950 and provides a continuous, researched scholarly account of Australia's foreign policy. The twelfth volume, Australia in World Affairs 2011–2015: Navigating the New International Disorder, covered a turbulent period both domestically and internationally. Australia had four Prime Ministers in this period alone, there were growing challenges in the Middle East and Europe, as well as on Australi…
Confrontation versus Coexistence
Many Western democracies, including the U.S. Australia, France, Canada, and Lithuania, confront the shared challenge of managing their ideological relationships with China, a powerful authoritarian state. This issue is particularly pressing as they consider ways to uphold or promote freedom amidst the perceived decline of American influence. Western liberal democracies frequently embrace a confrontational approach, demoting peaceful coexistence, …
China in the Lottocratic Turn
In the fourth installment of the Common Knowledge symposium "Antipolitics," Nadia Urbinati criticized the lottocratic turn in political thought by, in part, using the case of China to cast doubt on whether lottocracy is a democratic form at all. This article, in response to Urbinati's prompt, focuses on the place and role of China's experimental lotteries and citizen assemblies in the global discussion of sortition and democracy. Those experiment…
Covid-19, geopolitics and risk management
Geopolitics is shaping the international education landscape. International education has trationally been used as a tool to boost transnational cooperation, foster multilateral and global ties, and reduce tensions between nations. Such a role has been eroded and international education has been weaponised in the context of escalating political turbulences and disputes over the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, the relationship between Australia …
The politics of authoritarian empowerment
Partial and perceived empowerment in the practice of public hearings, widely spreading across China since the late 1990s and still operating today, is puzzling. Citizens enjoy the right to participation, information, and formal equality but their political empowerment is constrained without the right to elect and dismiss officials there. This article examines the politics of ‘authoritarian empowerment,’ which combines partial empowerment and soph…
Civilizational Perspectives of the Belt and Road Initiative
In recent years, a civilizational perspective as a part of geopolitical analysis is deployed to fuel geopolitical concern. China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has been viewed as a case of the clash of civilizations between the West and China. This paper scrutinizes the civilization-based geopolitical approach and analysis. It tests the “civilizational-clash” thesis beyond the Sinic–West relations through the cases of the Sinic–Islamic and Sini…
Taming Chinese power
As China grows in international importance and influence, more and more countries worry about how it will behave, and are preoccupied with the hard question of how to tame it. As a middle power Australia has sought ways to influence the thinking and behaviour of Chinese policymakers. The Australian approach to taming China represents an academically puzzling and politically intriguing case, which, unfortunately, has not been studied in detail. Th…
Whither Confucian Democracy Studies
Industrial citizenship, workplace deliberation and participatory management in China
A variety of forms and practices of citizenship in China has been well studied, but, unfortunately, studies on industrial citizenship are missing. Moreover, while there has been a growing literatur
Double trouble? Effects of social conflict and foreign investment on consultative authoritarianism in China
It remains contested whether Chinese public consultation practices can be called local deliberative democracy or a sort of consultative authoritarianism. Yet, these different evaluations lack an appreciation of regional variations as well as underlying drivers. This study fills this gap by developing a political economy approach and constructing panel data of 36 Chinese cities over 12 years. Our study reveals that the functional purpose of appeas…
The Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications
Within the Belt and Road Initiative literature, as well as in the media more broadly, geopolitical and geostrategic analyses have largely undervalued a role for domestic politics analyses. This article seeks to redress this deficiency, and supplements geopolitical analyses with a domestic politics perspective. It brings back the centrality of domestic politics. The domestic politics approach pays attention to the influence of personal leadership …
Authoritarian and Democratic Pathways to Meritocracy in China
Authoritarian and Democratic Pathways to Meritocracy in China
Can meritocracy replace democracy? A conceptual framework
Influenced by the example of China, a literature is emerging that advocates a modernized version of Confucian meritocracy, often as an alternative to liberal democracy and even democracy itself. We disagree with these arguments. A critical examination of the Chinese practices of meritocracy within the context of a regime that remains authoritarian is noticeably absent in the literature. This article addresses this gap and, in its findings, argues…
Moderating polarised positions on questions of national identity and sovereignty
Myanmar is in an important phase of its political transition. The opportunity for substantive federal reform, which is central to peacebuilding and democratisation, is present and being progressed through parallel elite level forums. However, these elite negotiations have serious limitations, as they fail to reach out to citizens, and contribute to polarisation and the perpetuation of extreme views regarding federalism. To address the absence of …
Regionalism as an Instrument for Global Power Contestation
Claims about the decline of regionalism in world politics have overlooked the continuing development and expansion of Chinese initiatives. This article critically examines the conventional conception of regionalism and develops a new flexible conceptual approach to the form of Chinese led-regionalism, and in particular its state-centric variant. The article examines the roles of China-led regionalism in the context of US–China rivalry through the…
Nationalism, National Identity, Elites and Democratization in Russia and China
Both the creeping democratization in China and the consolidation of democratization in Russia have confronted the national identity question and the rise of nationalism. Perhaps the most salient and pressing problem in Russia and China is the maintenance of national boundaries and an integral state. This reflects both the underlying fears of foreign incursions, secessionist wars and crippling border disputes, and a rather tenuous current relation…
Conceptual Introduction
This Introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book aims to define key concepts, explore their implications in a Chinese context, and spells out the linkages between nationalism, national identities, the national identity question, the nation-state system, and the relationship between the national boundary/identity question and democratization. It classifies nationalism into state ver…
Patriotic Villains and Patriotic Heroes
This chapter looks at how the statist notion of the nation and patriotism are contested by literary writers, arguably the most articulate and creative group of Chinese intellectuals. It explores what role Chinese writers play in shaping nationalism; and what sort of identity they are imagining. The chapter outlines the general intellectual and political background to the rise of literary nationalism in the 1980s and 1990s. It examines the &s;sear…
The National Identity Question, Nationalism, and Democratization in China and Taiwan
This chapter aims to compare nationalism and democratization in Taiwan and China, and, in particular seeks to develop an understanding of the rise of Taiwanese nationalism and its impact on democratization; as well as the impact democratization has on the politics associated with national identity question. It examines the effects of democratization and nationalism identifying two crucial structural factors which continue to contribute to the out…
The Clash between State Nationalism and Democratization over the National Identity Question
This chapter examines the areas where, and conditions under which, Chinese nationalism can be said to constitute an obstacle to democratization. It seeks to demonstrate the logic of the conflict between democracy and nationalism in the Chinese context. The chapter offers some general remarks on the relationship between nationalism and democracy. It gives a brief historical account of the various episodes where the national identity question has c…
Concluding Remarks
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts on key concepts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book provides a detailed documentary description of the rise of state nationalism, and offers comprehensive discussion on Chinese pan-national identity. It argues that state nationalism has been unable to rally the Chinese people behind the Party-state for lack of genuine popular support. The book examines a central issue concernin…
Reimagining the Nation
This chapter focuses on the Chinese intellectual search for a civic and territorial notion of national identity. Today&s;s Chinese intellectuals continue this tradition by inventing a pan-Chinese identity, as is well demonstrated by the case of the &s;Zeng Guofan phenomenon&s;. More specifically, China in the 1980s and 1990s was caught up in two major sociopolitical processes: accelerated modernization and the abrupt ending of the Cold War. In th…
Authoritarian Deliberation
Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of deliberative practices. These practices combine authoritarian concentrations of power with deliberative influence, producing the apparent anomaly of authoritarian deliberation. Although deliberation is usually associated with democracy, they are distinct phenomena. Democracy involves the inclusion of individuals in matters that affect them through distributions of empowerments such…
Giving the People a Voice? Experiments with consultative authoritarian institutions in China
In the last decade Chinese consultative authoritarianism has been renewed through many political and administrative innovations and tools. Authoritarian rule in China is now permeated by a wide variety of consultative and deliberative practices. These practices stabilize and strengthen authoritarian rule, leading to deliberative authoritarianism, an advanced form of consultative authoritarianism. This paper discusses two experiments—deliberative …
Deliberative Democracy in an Unlikely Place
Talk of democratic reform sometimes focuses on talk. The aspiration of ‘deliberative democracy’ is for the mass public to influence policy making through public discussion. The common presumption is that this is an advanced version of democracy, possible only in established democracies. Even there, there are doubts. Some contend that ordinary citizens cannot deal with complex policy issues, others that their deliberations will be distorted by gen…
The Domestic Politics of the Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications
Within the Belt and Road Initiative literature, as well as in the media more broadly, geopolitical and geostrategic analyses have largely undervalued a role for domestic politics analyses. This article seeks to redress this deficiency, and supplements geopolitical analyses with a domestic politics perspective. It brings back the centrality of domestic politics. The domestic politics approach pays attention to the influence of personal leadership …
Minority Rights with Chinese Characteristics 1
The growing influence of liberalism in China has made it important to determine the response of traditional Chinese political thought to Western liberal ideas of multicultural citizenship, and the impact of the Western liberal model of minority rights on China’s ethnic minority policy. This chapter begins by discussing the basic characteristics of the Confucian approach to minority questions and minority rights. It examines the influence of Marxi…
Deliberative Culture and Politics
The very thought of deliberative politics in contemporary China may seem surprising. Indeed, there are questions over its veracity. Analyses of scholarship on deliberative democracy in China to date might be said to fall into two camps: one sees the emergence of deliberative democracy in China as a real prospect for democracy; the other dismisses it outright. This essay offers an alternative evaluation to these two camps. It proposes a theoretica…
Nationalism, National Identity and Democratization in China
This title was first published in 2000: This text aims to provide a clear understanding of the complex relationship that exists between nationalism, national identity, the state, the direction and trend of China's transition and the subsequent prospects for democratization. While describing the rise of Chinese nationalism and the accompanying discourse on Chinese national identity, it focuses on the national identity question and its impact on de…
Authoritarian deliberation revisited
This introductory paper reviews the origin and development of the concept of authoritarian deliberation, and highlights the importance of culture and cultural tradition associated with public consultation. This paper summarizes and illustrates six key features of authoritarian deliberation in China. First, deliberation in China is a precarious balance between legal rule and state intervention. Second, the Party appeals to public reason to address…
Authoritarian Deliberation in China
Authoritarian rule in China increasingly involves a wide variety of deliberative practices. These practices combine authoritarian command with deliberative influence, producing the apparent anomaly of authoritarian deliberation. Although deliberation and democracy are usually found together, they are distinct phenomena. Democracy involves the inclusion of individuals in matters that affect them through distributions of empowerments like votes and…
East Asian ideas of regionalism
Little was done to challenge nationalist assumptions in the name of regionalism. Regarding nationalism as a sensitive matter best left to a later stage of regionalism, they [advocates of regionalism] did not focus on how nationalist outlooks in the media and elsewhere stand in the way of both regionalism and internationalism. Gilbert Rozman (2000: 18) With an increasing regional integration and development, there are many competing ideas of, and …
The politics of authoritarian empowerment
Partial and perceived empowerment in the practice of public hearings, widely spreading across China since the late 1990s and still operating today, is puzzling. Citizens enjoy the right to participation, information, and formal equality but their political empowerment is constrained without the right to elect and dismiss officials there. This article examines the politics of ‘authoritarian empowerment,’ which combines partial empowerment and soph…
Deliberative citizenship and deliberative governance
Deliberative democracy requires a new type of deliberative citizenship and deliberative governance. However, there has been little examination of the connection between deliberative citizenship and deliberative governance. Moreover, despite a growing literature that has examined a diversity of concepts of Chinese citizenship, the newly emerging deliberative citizenship has not been studied. This paper attempts to fill these two gaps by studying t…
Cosmopolitan Perspectives on European and Asian Transnationalism
The article explores the implications of major social transformation in Asia for Europe. It specifically addresses expressions of cosmopolitan engagement between transnational organizations representing Asia and Europe. Within Asia, there is some evidence to indicate that cosmopolitanism is becoming a significant factor in culture and in politics, as is illustrated by increasing transnational cooperation within Asia and the dilution of national i…
How democratic are Chinese grassroots deliberations? An empirical study of 393 deliberation experiments in China
Chinese public hearings or consultations have been subject to numerous debates, doubts, and scepticism about the existence of Chinese deliberative democracy. More empirical evidence, however, is required about these debates before we can offer any meaningful account of the nature, characteristics, and direction of Chinese deliberation. In addition, although there have been many case studies on grassroots deliberative democracy, such studies are i…
From Village Election to Village Deliberation in Rural China
Referenda as a Solution to the National-Identity/Boundary Question
Whether referenda should be adopted to decide questions about national-identity/boundary issues has been debated for the last two centuries
Reimagining the Chinese Nation
The Awkwardness of Australian Engagement with Asia
Australia has experienced difficulties engaging with Asia-Pacific regional integration. Despite Australian attempts to punch above its weight in regional forums and to be a regional leader, it is still not regarded as a full member or as quite fitting into the region. It is an ‘awkward partner’ in the Asian context, and has experienced the ‘liminality’ of being neither here nor there. The former Rudd government's proposal for an ‘Asia Pacific Com…
A Survey Study of Voting Behavior and Political Participation in Zhejiang
Two existing models are used to conceptualize the constrained and limited participation in the communist system. The mobilization model suggests that participation was so mobilized by the party/state that it was largely meaningless, while the disengagement model supports the idea that many communist citizens adopted non-participatory behaviors such as non-voting as a means of protest. This paper attempts to demonstrate the importance of a third m…
A Concert of Powers and Hybrid Regionalism in Asia
With the rise of China the strategic competition between the US and China has gained momentum over the last 10 years and is likely to continue in the near future. To deal with this challenge, Hugh White has proposed a concert of powers in Asia. White's proposal, however, has not received sufficient attention in Asia and is likely to be a failure if Asia does not take it seriously. This article examines the problematic assumptions of White's propo…
Introduction to Ideas of Asian Regionalism
Most of the current scholarship focuses on the functional aspects of regionalism such as economic and security issues, and the literature tends to be too focused on American or European concerns (Katzenstein, 2005; Higgott, 2007; Ravenhill, 2008). Despite the early examination of varied ideas of Asian regionalism (Milner and Johnson 1997, He, 2004, Acharya 2009), there remains a substantive lack of critical scholarship that focuses on the study o…
A Deliberative Approach to the Tibet Autonomy Issue
This paper reviews and compares three deliberative approaches to conflict, and applies the deliberative approach to the Tibet issue. It examines the case of a deliberative workshop, its achievements and limits. Deliberative dialogue appears to have improved knowledge and mutual understanding, enhanced mutual trust and deliberative capacities, and produced moderating effects
Village Citizenship in China
This paper aims to examine the idea and practice, as well as the implications, of village citizenship in China. It spells out the context and content of village citizenship, describes struggles for village status, and addresses the puzzling questions of why and how villagers seek to retain this status. It further examines the logic of how such struggles are leading to the establishment and improvement of village democratic institutions. The parad…
Dual roles of semi‐civil society in Chinese democratisation
This paper addresses the question of how a civil society impacts on Chinese democratisation, by examining the nature and features of a Chinese semi‐civil society which could be both a potential for greater democratisation, and a conservative force used by the state to maintain a neo‐authoritarian regime. It challenges the common assumption of the mere positive influence of civil society on democracy in a growing literature on civil society. It al…
Deliberation, demobilization, and limited empowerment
Authoritarian deliberation has been used widely to describe the specific form of deliberation developed in China. However, whether its practice will strengthen authoritarianism or lead to democratization remains unknown. In this study, we examine this question from the perspective of participants in public deliberation. Surveying the participants in participatory pricings held in Shanghai over the past 5 years, we find that participants’ percepti…
Chinese Dissidents' Ideas of Human Rights
Democracy as Viewed by Three Chinese Liberals
Democratisation
The nature of the political culture itself is often seen by commentators as the cause of democracy failing to take root in China; the antidemocratic elements of that culture being overemphasised while the democratic elements are underemphasised. This paper examines the application of the ideas of democratic culture in China to the current state of play, including the possibility of the democratic card being played by factions within the Chinese C…
Challenge of exception to procedural democracy
The problem of the exception raised by Carl Schmitt challenges procedural democracy during transitional period, in particular in today's Eastern Europe and tomorrow's China. This paper attempts to defend the coherence of proceduralism by discussing and overcoming the problem of the exception. It examines and criticizes the arguments in Schmitt's theory of the exception and formulates a basic liberal idea of the exception. It also provides a theor…
Infusing morality into political institutions
This paper argues that democratic institutional design does not require a sage's conception of morality, or Chinese Marxist, goal‐based morality. But it would be wrong to take this further and argue that no form of morality constitutes a normative basis for democratic politics. Contrarily, the author argues for a right‐based morality as being a solid moral foundation for Chinese liberal institutional design; and a procedural conception of moralit…
Dual roles of semi‐civil society in Chinese democratisation
This paper addresses the question of how a civil society impacts on Chinese democratisation, by examining the nature and features of a Chinese semi‐civil society which could be both a potential for greater democratisation, and a conservative force used by the state to maintain a neo‐authoritarian regime. It challenges the common assumption of the mere positive influence of civil society on democracy in a growing literature on civil society. It al…
Legitimation and democratization in a transitional China
In China under Deng Xiaoping, since the crushing of the democracy movement in June 1989, the communist party has attempted to modify the foundations of its legitimacy. The limits and the problems associated with the party's self‐legitimation have led to a search for new forms of legitimation, and new forms of legitimation, in their turn, indicate a democratic direction, or lay a foundation for a move towards democracy in China. Of particular conc…
Dilemmas of pluralist development and democratization in China
This article argues that the Western concept of pluralism, with some qualifications, can be applied to Chinese cultural, economic and political development, analyses the dilemmas of the reform process so far, and evaluates future possibilities. It examines the formation and limitations of cultural and economic pluralism, and their significance for party pluralism in China. The new ‘arts of rule’ that have been employed by the Chinese government t…
The Democratization of China
Xiandaixing shehui lilun xulun
National integrity, elites and democracy
Russia faces problems of democratic consolidation, that is, strengthening the democratic institutions and practices that have already been introduced. China faces the prospect of democratic transition and ‘creeping democratization’. Both processes are dependent on the same set of factors and conditions. The prospects of securing democracy in Russia and initiating democratic transition in China depend, first, on the solution of national boundary a…
China's Transition
The role of civil society in defining the boundary of a political community
The Role of Civil Society in Defining The Boundary of a Political Community: the Cases of South Korea and Taiwan
Reimagining the Chinese Nation
Authority and Welfare in China
Chine-Taiwan
China's First Direct Election of the Township Head
This paper is a detailed case study of China's first direct election of the township heads, examining the driving forces for and obstacles to direct township election, and Chinese utilitarian approach toward local democracy. The paper discusses the prospect of direct township election in China and highlights the Chinese paternalist model of democracy being implemented in practice
The National Identity Problem and Democratization
In The Early 1970S, Dankwart Rustow Stressed The Centrality of national identity as a background condition for democratization. A recently emerging body of literature has raised this important issue again, opening it up for further discussion. Mark Thompson, Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, for example, have highlighted the centrality of the national identity question (they use the term ‘stateness’) in their recent work. Henry Bienen and Jeffrey Herb…
Explaining Chinese Democratization
The Democratisation of China
The events of 1989, culminating in Tiananmen Square, highlighted the extent to which democratic ideals had taken root in China. Baogang He traces and evaluates the political discourse of democracy in contemporary China, identifying the three main competing models of democratization that dominate current Chinese intellectual trends. Analyzing the political implications of these models the author considers how the theories may be put into practice …
Referenda as a Solution to the National-Identity/Boundary Question
Whether referenda should be adopted to decide questions about national-identity/boundary issues has been debated for the last two centuries
Jiti jingji Beijing xia de xiangcun zhili (Village Governance under the Collective Economy) . Xiang Jiquan
Knavery and Virtue in Humean Institutional Design
The Theory and Practice of Chinese Grassroots Governance
Theories of governance and Chinese understandingsThere is a vast and eclectic literature about many forms of governance, including markets, bureaucratic hierarchies, associations and different types of networks. The Commission on Global Governance, for example, defines governance as ‘the sum of the many ways individuals and institutions, public and private, manage their common affairs. It is a continuing process through which conflicting or diver…
East Asian ideas of regionalism
Little was done to challenge nationalist assumptions in the name of regionalism. Regarding nationalism as a sensitive matter best left to a later stage of regionalism, they [advocates of regionalism] did not focus on how nationalist outlooks in the media and elsewhere stand in the way of both regionalism and internationalism. Gilbert Rozman (2000: 18) With an increasing regional integration and development, there are many competing ideas of, and …
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