The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

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.

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.

Acknowledgments

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Editors' Introduction

1

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Baogang He and Ethan J. Leib

Part I Theoretical Investigations into Deliberative Democracy

1 Deliberative Democracy in Different Places

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(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

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