中国学者贝淡宁（Daniel A. Bell）和张维维指出，西方自由民主传统过的主要政治替代品便是在中国不断演化的社会主义派制度。
As the China scholars Daniel A. Bell and Zhang Weiwei have noted, the major political alternative to Western liberal-democratic traditions are the communitarian institutions that continue to evolve in China.