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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The East Asian Challenge to Human Rights and Democracy. Reflections on East-West Dialogues | |
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| Toward a Truly International Human Rights Regime | |
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| Trade-offs | |
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| Rights vs. Development: A Zero-Sum Game? | |
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| The Need for Specificity | |
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| An Asian Voice on Human Rights? | |
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| Human Rights: A Western Invention? | |
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| Increasing commitment to Human Rights in East Asia: Strategic Considerations | |
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| On the Prospects of Exporting American Ideals to East Asia | |
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| Appealing to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in Asia | |
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| Local justifications for Human Rights | |
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| A Different Moral Standpoint? | |
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| Cultural Respect vs. Liberal Neutrality | |
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| Justifiable Constraints on Western-Style Rights | |
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| New "Asian" Rights: Expanding the Set of Internationally Recognized Rights | |
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| Summary | |
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| Democratic Rights: On the Importance of Local Knowledge | |
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| Trade-off Issues | |
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| On the Possibility of Decent Nondemocratic Regimes | |
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| The Costs of Democratization | |
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| Democratic Rights: Different justifications | |
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| Limiting the Power of the State | |
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| Democracy as a Means for Nation-Building | |
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| Identifying the Agents of Democratization | |
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| Nation-Building and Social Consensus in Confucian Democracies | |
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| Democratic Rights: Different Constraints | |
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| Democracy vs. Civil Rights | |
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| Democracy vs. Social and Economic Rights | |
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| Democracy vs. Future Generations | |
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| Summary | |
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| The Pros and Cons of Democracy in Singapore: A Fictitious Dialogue with Lee Kuan Yew | |
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| Is Liberal Democracy Suitable for Singapore? | |
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| Democracy Defined as Free and Fair Competitive Elections | |
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| Democracy justified (Only) by Its Consequences | |
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| Democracy and Security | |
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| Democracy and Civil Liberties | |
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| Democracy and Prosperity | |
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| Summary | |
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| A Communitarian Critique of Authoritarianism: The Case of Singapore | |
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| Community and Democracy | |
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| Democracy and the Family | |
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| Democracy and the Nation | |
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| Singapore: A Patriotic Nation? | |
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| How Authoritarianism Undermines Patriotism | |
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| On the Need for Patriotism in Singapore | |
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| Summary | |
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| Democracy With Chinese Characteristics | |
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| A Political Proposal for the Post-Communist Era | |
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| Constraining Democratic Populism | |
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| On the Need for Capable and Far-Sighted Rulers in Modern Societies | |
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| A Confucian Tradition of Respect for a Ruling Intellectual Elite | |
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| Alternative Proposals | |
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| Plural Voting Schemes | |
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| A Corporatist Assembly | |
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| A Parliament of Scholar-Officials | |
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| The Proposal | |
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| Selection Procedures | |
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| The Problem of Cormption | |
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| The Question of Universalizability | |
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| The Problem of Gridlock | |
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| Implementation of the Proposal | |
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| Closing Scene | |
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| Select Bibliography | |
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| Index | |