Democracy After Virtue: Toward Pragmatic Confucian Democracy - Paperbackby Sungmoon Kim (Author) Is Confucianism compatible with democracy? Ongoing debates among political theorists revolve around the question of whether the overarching goal of Confucianism serving the people's moral and material well being is attainable in modern day politics without broad democratic participation and without relying on a "one person, one vote" system. One side of the debate voiced by "traditional" Confucian meritocrats argues that only