A system of above-average ability with below-average virtue.
Can the democratic United States
draw lessons from one-party China to improve the American political system?
Yes,
says Tsinghua University professor Daniel A. Bell, writing for The
Christian Science Monitor. Put simply, his argument is that (a)
“political meritocracy” is in many ways a superior system to liberal
democracy; (b) the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), which runs the Chinese
government, is a meritocratic system; and (c) by the transitive
property, China’s political system is in many ways superior to
America’s. “Democracy is a flawed political system,” Bell writes, “and
meritocracy can help to remedy some of its flaws.”
