The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

DANIEL A. BELL JAMES S. FISHKIN XU JILIN SHI JINCHUAN ETHAN J. LEIB SHAWN ROSENBERG CHEN SHENGYONG ALICE SIU GEOFFREY STOKES QINGSHAN TAN DONG XUEBING

This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory useful to guide Chinese practices, and also Chinese practice that can educate the West.This book investigates whether the theory of deliberative democracy - developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimation that deliberation can afford - has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory useful to guide Chinese practices, and also Chinese practice that can educate the West.