Good governance in a world of multiple modernities

Good governance consists of normative and legal commitments, institutions, and economic best practices that advance the globalization of economic and political liberalism, while state sovereignty ensures national and cultural diversity. Though urbanization is an important factor in producing social atomization, both its rate and modalities must be examined to draw conclusions about causal significance. Sources of social atomization are also not difficult to locate in the Confucian world, particularly in China, due to its economic successes and excesses of the past four decades. China&s;s governance remains a work in progress. The question of the future of global governance is similarly unclear. The blows to European supra-nationalism and the threat of rampant populism to a global trading order dominated by states with cosmopolitan citizenship bode ill for a global governance still committed to the prescriptions of Kantian Enlightenment rationalism and idealism.

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