What makes a political theory cross-cultural
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12610076 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Loubna El Amine (0000-0003-3539-6589, King's College London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Pages | 1-7 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1369-8230 • E-ISSN: 1743-8772 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13698230.2025.2558330 |
| OpenAlex | W4414144610 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 6 |
Elena Ziliotti’s book Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory offers an argument for meritocratic democracy by putting two bodies of scholarship in conversation with each other: Western democratic theory and contemporary Confucian political theory. In this essay, I probe the extent to which the proposed theory is cross-cultural. More specifically, I ask what is distinctively Confucian about the political ideals underpinning Ziliotti’s account and whether the argument ultimately rests on institutional, rather than cultural, foundations. I also consider whether the argument could have been extended to include developing countries, thereby widening the scope of the theory
Argument (complex analysis · Conversation · Democracy · Meritocracy · Political philosophy · Politics · Scholarship · Underpinning · Chinese history and philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Religion and Society Interactions
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |