The search for deliberative democracy in China/ edited by Ethan J. Leib and Baogang He - Palgrave Macmillan, 2010. - 343p.


Part I Theoretical Investigations into Deliberative Democracy
1 Deliberative Democracy in Different Places 23
John S. Dryzek
2 Realizing Deliberative Democracy: Strategies for Democratic Consultation 37
James S. Fishkin
3 Critical Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Citizenship 53
Geoffrey Stokes


Part II Theoretical Approaches to the Search for Deliberative Democracy in China
4 Human Nature, Communication, and Culture: Rethinking Democratic Deliberation in China and the West 77
Shawn Rosenberg
5 Pragmatism in Designing Popular Deliberative Institutions in the United States and China 113
Ethan ]. Leib
6 Western Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Chinese Practice of Complex Deliberative Governance 133
Baogang He
7 Deliberative Democracy with Chinese Characteristics; A Comment on Baogang He's Research 149
Daniel A. Bell


Part III Empirical Approaches to the Search for Deliberative Democracy in China
8 The Native Resources of Deliberative Politics in China 161
Chen Shengyong
9 Participatory and Deliberative Institutions in China 175
Baogang He
10 Deliberative Democracy and Village Self-Government in China 197
Qingshan Tan
11 The Reconstruction of Local Power: Wenling City's "Democratic Talk in All Sincerity" 217
Dong Xuebing & Shi Jinchuan
12 Public Consultation Through Deliberation in China: The First Chinese Deliberative Poll 229
James S. Fishkin, Baogang He, & Alice Siti
13 Reforming Peking University: A Window into Deliberative Democracy? 245
Xu Jilin

Part IV Two Alternative Spaces for Deliberative Democracy: Online and in Law
14 Spaces of Authoritarian Deliberation: Online Public Deliberation in China 261
Min Jiang
15 The Development of Public Participation in the People's Republic of China 289
Jamie P. Horsley



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