The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

by Leib, Ethan J.; He, Baogang

• ISBN13: 9781403974167
• ISBN10: 1403974160
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-10-03
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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 especially useful to guide Chinese practices and pockets of Chinese practice that can, in turn, educate the West on possibilities for innovative uses of deliberative democratic theory.

Author Biography

Ethan J. Leib is a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco. Baogang He is the Chair in International Studies at The School of Politics and International Studies, Deakin University, Australia.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Editors' Introduction	1	(22)
Baogang He and Ethan J. Leib
Part I Theoretical Investigations into Deliberative Democracy
1 Deliberative Democracy in Different Places	23	(14)
John S. Dryzek
2 Realizing Deliberative Democracy: Strategies for Democratic Consultation	37	(16)
James S. Fishkin
3 Critical Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Citizenship	53	(24)
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	(36)
Shawn Rosenberg
5 Pragmatism in Designing Popular Deliberative Institutions in the United States and China	113	(20)
Ethan J. Leib
6 Western Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Chinese Practice of Complex Deliberative Governance	133	(16)
Baogang He
7 Deliberative Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: A Comment on Baogang He's Research	149	(12)
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	(14)
Chen Shengyong
9 Participatory and Deliberative Institutions in China	175	(22)
Baogang He
10 Deliberative Democracy and Village Self-government in China	197	(20)
Qingshan Tan
11 The Reconstruction of Local Power: Wenling City's "Democratic Talk in All Sincerity"	217	(12)
Dong Xuebing and Shi Jinchuan
12 Public Consultation through Deliberation in China: The First Chinese Deliberative Poll	229	(16)
James S. Fishkin, Baogang He, and Alice Siu
13 Reforming Peking University: A Window into Deliberative Democracy?	245	(14)
Xu Jilin
List of Contributors	259	(4)
Index	263