Intelligent Governance for the 21st Century : A Middle Way between West and East (Hardcover)

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction 1

Part I Globalization and Governance

1 Globalization 2.0 and the Challenges to Good Governance 7

2 America’s Consumer Democracy versus China’s Modern Mandarinate 21

3 Liberal Democratic Constitutionalism and Meritocracy: Hybrid Possibilities 48

4 The New Challenges for Governance: Social Networks, Megacities, and the Global Scattering of
Productive Capabilities 75

Part II Intelligent Governance: Theory and Practice

5 Intelligent Governance: Tenets and Template 103

6 Rebooting California’s Dysfunctional Democracy 126

7 The G-20: Global Governance from Summits to Subnational Networks 149

8 Europe: Political Union and the Democratic Deficit 164

Part III Conclusion

9 Survival of the Wisest 181

Notes 185