The West System of Delegation and the Chinese Civic Culture
Resource
政治科學論叢, 7, 057-072
Journal
政治科學論叢
Journal Issue
7
Pages
057-072
Date Issued
1996-06
Date
1996-06
Author(s)
Shih, C.Y.
Abstract
The Western system of deleagation lacks cultural support in Chinese history which has yet to appreciate the meaning of Renaissance, Enlightenment, Scientific Revolution, and the associated colonialism and state building, all important bases for contemporary political systems. However, it is psychologically imperative for western democracy advocates to find alliers in China so as to create the impressions that China would ultimately develop the democratic system of delegation and that China should be contained before its eventual adoption of emocracy. Taiwan has become the proof that the Chinese civic culture will move towards the Westerm model. As a result, the parallels between China's and Taiwan's practices of delegation system are consistently overlooked by the Western scholarship on Chinese political culture. This paper examines these parallels to show that Western illusion of democracy in Taiwan misses the true meaning of Taiwan's political reform.
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Type
journal article