Sam Crane is a professor in the political science department at Williams College, where he teaches contemporary Chinese politics and ancient Chinese philosophy. He is the author of Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Dao: Ancient Chinese Thought in Modern American Life.
Daniel A. Bell has a piece today in the CSM, arguing that the PRC political system is, basically, a meritocracy that holds lessons that might correct the flaws of US democracy. Bell is a philosopher and he tends to operate in normative terms (i.e. what a meritocracy ought to be; what a democracy ought to be; how the...