The Democratic Outcome State : Political Meritocracy and the Tyranny of Consent - Boon Choo

The Democratic Outcome State

Political Meritocracy and the Tyranny of Consent

By: Boon Choo

Paperback | 11 March 2020

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Democratic Outcome State - Political Meritocracy and The Tyranny of Consent

Distilling history, this book now poses an epochal challenge. Is Political Meritocracy the universal solution that Liberal Democracy is not?

All men are not equal and never will be. Yet, democracy's poetic lie on "self-evident truth that all men are created equal" has universal acceptance. Its Calvinist origins have transmuted spiritual equality into equality of consent in the government of man The outcome of democratic rule the world over has been anything but democratic!

The Chinese, with their meritocratic traditions, have not been bound by this leap of logic. However, a century and a half of decline had rendered its history of the meritocratic rule to a distant memory. It would be descendants of landless peasants in the tiny state of Singapore that would play unwitting roles in the restoration of Political Meritocracy and the rise of the Chinese nation.

This book unravels the conventional narratives of East Asian economic miracles revealing surprising political meritocracies. The outcomes of these political meritocracies would turn out to be far more democratic than those of liberal democracies.

Boon Choo's work will be controversial, but his arguments will reset many minds on long-held convictions.

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