My review of Sungmoon Kim’s Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy (OUP, 2023) is now accessible online in Ethics. The book is the first attempt to articulate a comprehensive Confucian democratic constitutional theory. Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy matters beyond the academic space. Given the current context in South Korea (interestingly, also the author’s birthplace), […]
Published work
Critical Exchange on Confucian Constitutionalism (OUP, 2023)
Exciting news! In collaboration with Sungmoon Kim, Rogers M. Smith, Yong Li, Richard Bellamy, and Simon Sihang Luo, I have published a critical exchange on Sungmoon Kim’s thought-provoking book Confucian Constitutionalism: Dignity, Rights, and Democracy (OUP, 2023). The piece has just appeared as an open-access online first article on the website of Contemporary Political Theory, […]
Hot from the press “Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory”
I am pleased to announce the publication of my latest book, Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, published by Oxford University Press and now available for online order. About the Book Meritocratic Democracy puts into dialogue contemporary works in Western democratic theory and Confucian political theory to examine the effectiveness of democracy as a decision-making […]