Watching Chinese politics under the mirror ofthe end of history—dialogue with Francis Fukuyama on hisreflections on Chinese governance
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6153181 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Guangbin Yang (0000-0003-3797-0054, Renmin University of China, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 1 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 520-533 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-02 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Chinese Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2381-2354 • E-ISSN: 2381-2346 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212783 |
| OpenAlex | W2524992783 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Francis Fukuyama wrote Reflections of Chinese Governance technically for Chinese readers to understand his ideas in an accurate way. I think it is not true to say that the existence of rule of law depends on religion according to the development of knowledge and the history of law. Meanwhile, the hypothesis still needs to be discussed that the government accountability only appears through the vote, because the government by vote only leads to stability in some degree but ineffective governance in almost all of the underdeveloped countries. A government without governance cannot be called accountable; it even has no morality if we consider Huntington’s idea. It seems that Fukuyama’s Three Institutional Pillars should be seen as a revisited version of the End of History. For instance, it is not objectionable to conclude that China lacks the facts of rule of law since it has no judicial independence since these developing countries that have a constitutional court even perform worse than China. It is obvious that we should not simply judge the facts of rule of law by this single standard. Meanwhile, China is always criticized that it lacks accountability; however, the responsiveness of Chinese government to people’s appeals might be the most prompt and comprehensive in all of the developing countries. Fukuyama’s knowledge about China remains locked into the old impression of China as viewed by the western world. In fact, the accurate way of understanding China should be ‘finding history in China’. I agree that whatever regime it is, it needs to be reformed and changed with time. As for Chinese government, the reform does not happen in a single field of the rule of law as Fukuyama mentioned, but in the whole government to establish a limited government with capacity as a goal in the future
Accountability · Big government · China · Corporate governance · Economics · End of history · Good governance · Government (linguistics · Independence (probability theory · Law and economics · Management · Morality · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rule of law · Separation of powers · Sociology · China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance · Chinese history and philosophy · Demographic Trends and Gender Preferences · Law · Philosophy
Political Order in Changing Societies
Discovering History in China
The origins of political order
Origins of the Modern Chinese State
Political order and political decay
India Economic Development and Social Opportunity
China
Justice as fairness
Cultural Values and Political Trust
Morality, Benevolence, and Responsibility
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |