Triangulating human political conditions and reorienting political development in China

Ming Xia

Journal of Chinese Governance, 2016, vol. 1, issue 3, 405-426

Abstract: A revisit to the debate on human nature leads us to multiple cultures upon which anarchy has been constructed and fictionalized. By highlighting the importance of social capital in human society, this paper argues that a Lockean conception of anarchy, instead of a Hobbesian one, offers a better option for achieving a liberal democracy in the cyclic and triadic model of anarchy-autocracy-democracy.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1080/23812346.2016.1212541

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