The article is supported by the Major Research Project of Ministry of Education of China's Key Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at Universities,entitled“A Comparative Study of Chinese and Western Political Civilizations in an Ethical Perspective”(17JJD720007).
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My huge gratitude for 6 years of inspirational collaboration and feedback goes to co-conveners of the Building Global Democracy(BGD)programme:Diana Brydon,Jessica Byron,Alla Glinchikova,Sitiveni Halapua,Heba Raouf Ezzat,Anand Kumar,Moema de Miranda,Alfred Nhema,and Peng Zongchao.Enormous thanks also go to the Ford Foundation(Grant No.1080-0271)for generous core funding of the BGD initiative;Supplementary BGD project support was gratefully received from the Centre for Global Cooperation Research(University of Duisburg-Essen),the Centre for Governance Innovation(University of Pretoria),the Gothenburg Centre of Globalisation and Development(University of Gothenburg),Oxfam Novib,and World Vision Australia.
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