Chinese leaders are not directly elected and a country has a single-party system with quite some infighting going on.
Leaders don’t need to, and imo shouldn’t be directly elected.
We see the pitfalls of that in western societies quite a bit, where most governments’ top level legislatures/executives are staffed by absolute buffoons and ghouls. Elections in western democracies are glorified contests to see who can fundraise and manipulate people better. The accountability of leaders that elections are supposed to provide in practice doesn’t exist either. Leaders are pretty much only up for challenge once ever 4-6 years, by which point people forget all the bad things they did.
Electing the heads of states and legislatures is in reality ideological ceremony. It legitimizes their power on the basis that they pinky promise to do what they campaigned on.
Kind of a late reply, but
Leaders don’t need to, and imo shouldn’t be directly elected.
We see the pitfalls of that in western societies quite a bit, where most governments’ top level legislatures/executives are staffed by absolute buffoons and ghouls. Elections in western democracies are glorified contests to see who can fundraise and manipulate people better. The accountability of leaders that elections are supposed to provide in practice doesn’t exist either. Leaders are pretty much only up for challenge once ever 4-6 years, by which point people forget all the bad things they did.
Electing the heads of states and legislatures is in reality ideological ceremony. It legitimizes their power on the basis that they pinky promise to do what they campaigned on.