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Intelligent Governance For The 21st Century
Nicolas Berggruen
A Middle Way between West and East
Polity Press
December 2012
On Sale: November 28, 2012
196 pages
ISBN: 074565973X
EAN: 9780745659732
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
For decades, liberal democracy has been extolled as the best
system of governance to have emerged out of the long
experience of history. Today, such a confident assertion is
far from self-evident. Democracy, in crisis across the West,
must prove itself. In the West today, the authors argue, we no longer live in
"industrial democracies," but "consumer democracies" in
which the governing ethos has ended up drowning households
and governments in debt and resulted in paralyzing
partisanship. In contrast, the long-term focus of the
decisive and unified leadership of China is boldly moving
its nation into the future. But China also faces challenges
arising from its meteoric rise. Its burgeoning middle class
will increasingly demand more participation, accountability
of government, curbing corruption and the rule of law. As the 21st Century unfolds, both of these core systems of
the global order must contend with the same reality: a
genuinely multi-polar world where no single power dominates
and in which societies themselves are becoming increasingly
diverse. The authors argue that a new system of "intelligent
governance" is required to meet these new challenges. To
cope, the authors argue that both East and West can benefit
by adapting each other’s best practices. Examining this in
relation to widely varying political and cultural contexts,
the authors quip that while China must lighten up, the US
must tighten up. This highly timely volume is both a conceptual and practical
guide of impressive scope to the challenges of good
governance as the world continues to undergo profound
transformation in the coming decades.
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