Daniel A. Bell

Westerners tend to divide the political world into "good" democracies and "bad" authoritarian regimes. However, the Chinese political model does not fit neatly into either category. Over the past three decades, China has evolved a political system best described as "political meritocracy." The China Model seeks to understand the ideals and the reality of this unique political system. How do...

Winner, Financial Times 2023, Best Politics Book of the Year An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system. On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University, becoming the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. In...

Winner, Financial Times 2023, Best Politics Book of the Year An inside view of Chinese academia and what it reveals about China's political system. On January 1, 2017, Daniel Bell was appointed dean of the School of Political Science and Public Administration at Shandong University—the first foreign dean of a political science faculty in mainland China's history. In The Dean...

A trenchant defense of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political All complex and large-scale societies are organized along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is...

A trenchant defence of hierarchy in different spheres of our lives, from the personal to the political. All complex and large-scale societies are organised along certain hierarchies, but the concept of hierarchy has become almost taboo in the modern world. Just Hierarchy contends that this stigma is a mistake. In fact, as Daniel Bell and Wang Pei show, it is...