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 […]

Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing

American Political Science Review. Published online 2024:1-14. doi:10.1017/S0003055424000194 What normative compass can appropriately ground a theory for contemporary “non-Western” societies? This question has become urgent amid the pressure to decolonize political science and academia. The hybridity of numerous contemporary non-Western societies means that political theorists cannot refuse to engage with either Western-originated or premodern Indigenous […]

Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory

Meritocratic Democracy: A Cross-Cultural Political Theory, forthcoming from Oxford University Press (probably 2024) is the first synthesis of contemporary Eastern meritocratic theories and Confucian democracy with recent Western democratic ideas. It offers a more nuanced theoretical framework through which the value of democratic institutions can be better understood and shows how Confucian ideas of sound […]

Ethics of Socially Disruptive Technologies: An Introduction

Edited by: Ibo van de Poel, Lily Eva Frank, Julia Hermann, Jeroen Hopster, Dominic Lenzi, Sven Nyholm, Behnam Taebi, Elena Ziliotti Abstract: Technologies shape who we are, how we organize our societies and how we relate to nature. For example, social media challenges democracy; artificial intelligence raises the question of what is unique to humans; […]