Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei: Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 270.)

Mitchell, Ryan

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“…Hierarchy also exists at the meso and micro levels of healthcare organisations in teams, regardless of how broader societal relations or how a broader organisation is structured; competence and perceived expertise, amongst a range of other factors, are important in explaining how hierarchies are formed and are maintained amongst groups and teams (Bunderson, 2003; Magee & Galinsky, 2008). In addition to being pervasive, hierarchies vary substantially, from rigid to dynamic, steep to flat (Anderson & Brown, 2010), from hierarchy where leadership and decision‐making is more concentrated, to more dispersed democratic leadership (Kolodny, 2023) in varying cultural interpretations of hierarchy (Bell & Pei, 2020).…”

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A scoping review exploring the impact and negotiation of hierarchy in healthcare organisations

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Healthcare organisations are hierarchical; almost all are organised around the ranking of individuals by authority or status, whether this be based on profession, expertise, gender or ethnicity. Hierarchy is important for several reasons; it shapes the delivery of care, what is prioritised and who receives care. It also has an impact on healthcare workers and how they work and communicate together in organisations. The purpose of this scoping review is to explore the qualitative evidence related to hierarchy in healthcare organisations defined broadly, to address gaps in macro‐level healthcare organisational research, specifically focusing on the (1) impact of hierarchy for healthcare workers and (2) how hierarchy is negotiated, sustained and challenged in healthcare organisations. After a search and screening, 32 papers were included in this review. The findings of this review detail the wide‐reaching impacts that hierarchy has on healthcare delivery and health workers. The majority of studies spoke to hierarchy's impact on speaking up, that is, how it shaped communication between staff with differential status: not only what was said, but how it had an impact on what was acceptable to say, by whom and at what time. Hierarchy was also noted to have substantial personal costs, impacting on the well‐being of those in less powerful positions. These findings also provide insight into the complex ways in which hierarchy was negotiated, challenged and reproduced. Studies not only detailed the way in which hierarchy was navigated day to day but also spoke to the reasons as to why hierarchy is often entrenched and difficult to shift. A number of studies spoke to the impact that hierarchy had in sustaining gender and ethnic inequalities, maintaining historically discriminatory practices. Importantly, hierarchy should not be reduced to differences between or within the professions in localised contexts but should be considered at a broad organisational level.

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“…4 However, developing a relevant theory for present societies requires the theory to 3 For instance, the development of a normative system to provide prescriptive direction to the present and future African societies is the central aspiration of contemporary African political theorists, such as Eze (2008;, Gyekye (1997), Mbembe (2001;), Menkiti (1984, Okeja (2022), Taiwo (2004), Wiredu (19961998). Likewise, in Confucian political theory, prominent East Asian or East Asia-based political theorists, such as Bai (2019), Bell (2006;, Bell and Pei (2020), Chan (2014), Ci (2019), Jiang (2012), Kim (2014;2018;, Kwon (2022), O'Dwyer (2019), and Tan (2004 have given considerable weight to the advancement of political theories specifically tailored to the needs and circumstances of contemporary East Asian societies. 4 The academic stance of these political theorists sharply contrasts with the notion of theory recently proposed by Jenco who argues that theories consist of "the deterritorialization of ideas to produce new and broader insight into social and political conditions elsewhere" (Jenco 2016, 4, my emphasis).…”

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Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing

ZILIOTTI

2024

Am Polit Sci Rev

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What normative compass can appropriately ground a theory for contemporary “non-Western” societies? This question has become urgent amid the pressure to decolonize political science and academia. The hybridity of numerous contemporary non-Western societies means that political theorists cannot refuse to engage with either Western-originated or premodern Indigenous concepts and ways of thinking that bear on the local public culture. However, these normative strands alone are unsuitable for grounding a contemporary theory. This methodological dilemma can be overcome if theorists adopt normative hybridity as a methodological stance. Normative hybridity suggests that hybridity is not only a feature of the theorist’s context of reference but should also be their modus operandi. Normative hybridity already underpins relevant works in contemporary Confucian political theory. Drawing from these works, I illustrate three methods to apply normative hybridity to theory building. This novel methodological approach uniquely addresses current political theory discussions and influences non-Western policymaking.

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“…We might be sceptical about this possibility, however, and in the face of such scepticism some political meritocrats have considered ways of using non‐democratic institutions to make politics more reliably meritocratic. These can involve restricting democracy – giving special voting privileges to meritorious elites (Brennan, 2016) – or simply circumventing it – empowering certain elites to appoint lawmakers and executives directly (Bell, 2006:ch.7, 2016, 2020:ch.2, Qing, 2012; Woolridge, 2021:ch.17, Bai, 2021).…”

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Meritocracy in the Political and Economic Spheres

Sachs‐Cobbe,

Douglas

2023

Philosophy Compass

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The idea that our economic institutions should be designed meritocratically is back as a hot topic in western academic circles. At the same time political meritocracy is once again a subject of philosophical discussion, with some Western philosophers embracing epistocracy and Confucianism being revived among Eastern philosophers. This survey has the ambition, first, of putting differing strands of this literature into dialogue with each other: the economic with the political, and the Western with the Eastern. Second, we seek here to impose order on the debates over meritocracy by carefully separating out the four steps that must be traversed on the journey to a meritocratic conclusion. Third we want to promote a more productive debate moving forward by cleanly pulling apart three kinds of purported merit base.

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Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei: Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World. (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020. Pp. x, 270.)

Cited by 8 publications

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A scoping review exploring the impact and negotiation of hierarchy in healthcare organisations

A scoping review exploring the impact and negotiation of hierarchy in healthcare organisations

Breaking the Mold: Normative Hybridity as the Key to Contemporary “Non-Western” Political Theorizing

Meritocracy in the Political and Economic Spheres

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