ABSTRACT
Is Confucian culture compatible or incompatible with democracy? The conventional wisdom seems to suggest that the answer is in the negative, as exemplified by Samuel P. Huntington’s assertion in his popular book The Third Wave: Democratization in the Late Twentieth Century that “[a]lmost no scholarly disagreement exists on the proposition that traditional Confucianism was either undemocratic or antidemocratic” (Huntington 1991: 300).
