Is China More Democratic Than The US?: Article Analysis

Democracy is a universal value, this political system allowing each country to prefer and form its institutions in contextually appropriate ways. Consequently, numerous scholars acknowledge different elements and institutions to measure whether a country is democratic or not. Therefore, the article entitled “Is China More Democratic Than The US?” by Hu Angang (2014) focuses on sophisticated separation of powers and accountability in China, which shown by the collective presidency. The author illustrates the collective presidency as a super-institution that gained its power from the reintegration of the divided powers. Moreover, the author systematically identifies five major mechanisms of China’s collective presidency consist of collective collaboration, collective power transition, collective self-improvement, collective research, and collective decision-making. Also, claims that this system is more superior than Western’s distribution of powers, especially after the Chinese government’s monumental success to tackle the latest global financial crisis. Overall, this article not brief answers the question which has been mentioned in the title and not relieves people to understand how a Chinese-styled of democracy works and operate without civic engagement.
Unfortunately, all members of PSC, the State Council, the Supreme People’s Court and the majority in National People’s Congress are also members of the Communist Party of China (CPC). This kind of democracy refers to intra-party democracy where the opposition parties have no power to criticize the government. Even though China recognizes other than one party, the one in absolute power is CPC, so China is notorious with the one-party