Abstract
This chapter focuses on an evaluation of institutional performance, an analysis of institutional change, and an examination of a new model of a humanitarian society.
The Master said, ‘With one like Ts’ze (also translated as Ci), I can begin to talk about the odes. I told him one point, and he knew its proper sequence.’ (In Chinese: 子曰: “赐也, 始可与言《诗》已矣!告诸往而知来者。” (《论语·学而第一》)).
—Confucian analects (1900, pp. 8–9)
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Here, I do not analyze the cases with unsuccessful governance results, because if their governance results are unsuccessful, their intuitional performance all will be characterized as “failure,” and then, it is not necessary to analyze their institutional resilience and sustainability.
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Democracy index 2006 (Kekic 2007) stressed four regime types: full democracies, flawed democracies, hybrid regimes, and authoritarian regimes.
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In Introductory Note of The Doctrine of the Mean (Chong Yung, or Zhong Yong), Chengzi (Chû Hsî) said: “My master, the Philosopher Ch’ǎng (Zicheng in Chinese pinyin) says:—‘Being without inclination to either side is called CHUNG; admitting of no change is called is called Yung. By CHUNG is denoted the correct course to be pursed by all under heaven; by YUNG is denoted the fixed principle regulating all under heaven’” (The Doctrine of the Mean 1900, p. 246). In Chinese: 子程子曰: “不偏之谓中; 不易之谓庸。中者, 天下之正道。庸者, 天下之定理。” (《中庸》).
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Yang, L. (2019). Institutional Performance, Institutional Change, and Building a Knowledge-Driven Society. In: Knowledge-Driven Governance. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-2910-4_6
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