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  • 6 - Towards the Future

  • Qianfan Zhang, Peking University, Beijing
  • Book:
    Constitutional Reforms in China
    Published online:
    19 December 2024
    Print publication:
    02 January 2025, pp 230-290

  • Summary

    This chapter contains answers to the Questionnaire on Constitutional Democracy for Chinese Liberal Intellectuals, which covers the basic concepts and institutional designs of constitutional democracy. China’s most pressing task is not making a new and better constitution, but rather formulating social contract through implementing the existing constitution, which does pay lip service to many political natural law precepts. Unlike many admirers of the American presidential system, I advocate for a Westminster-type parliamentary system, which has largely been borrowed by the current Chinese constitution, to be embedded in a federal framework for future China.

  • The Paradox of Ethnic Equality

  • Ferdinand Sutterlüty
  • Journal:
    European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / April 2010
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 June 2010, pp. 33-53

  • This essay deals with the findings of an ethnographic study carried out in two urban neighborhoods in Germany. Although the German residents felt bound by the norms of ethnic equality, they used negative classifications to stigmatize upwardly mobile members of the Turkish community. In doing so, they undermined these equality norms without explicitly calling them into question. This paradox can be explained by a latently active, primordial belief in kinship, which is ultimately rooted in a symbolic order of ethnic inequality.