The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-VII

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2. Editors’ Introduction

   1. Editors’ Introduction

      • Baogang He, Ethan J. Leib

      Pages 1-19

3. Theoretical Investigations into Deliberative Democracy

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21

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   2. Deliberative Democracy in Different Places

      • John S. Dryzek

      Pages 23-35

   3. Realizing Deliberative Democracy: Strategies for Democratic Consultation

      • James S. Fishkin

      Pages 37-52

   4. Critical Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Problem of Citizenship

      • Geoffrey Stokes

      Pages 53-73

4. Theoretical Approaches to the Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 75-75

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   2. Human Nature, Communication, and Culture: Rethinking Democratic Deliberation in China and the West

      • Shawn Rosenberg

      Pages 77-111

   3. Pragmatism in Designing Popular Deliberative Institutions in the United States and China

      • Ethan J. Leib

      Pages 113-131

   4. Western Theories of Deliberative Democracy and the Chinese Practice of Complex Deliberative Governance

      • Baogang He

      Pages 133-148

   5. Deliberative Democracy with Chinese Characteristics: A Comment on Baogang He’s Research

      • Daniel A. Bell

      Pages 149-157

5. Empirical Approaches to the Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 159-159

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   2. The Native Resources of Deliberative Politics in China

      • Chen Shengyong

      Pages 161-173

   3. Participatory and Deliberative Institutions in China

      • Baogang He

      Pages 175-196

   4. Deliberative Democracy and Village Self-government in China

      • Qingshan Tan

      Pages 197-215

   5. The Reconstruction of Local Power: Wenling City’s “Democratic Talk in All Sincerity”

      • Dong Xuebing, Shi Jinchuan

      Pages 217-228

   6. Public Consultation Through Deliberation in China: The First Chinese Deliberative Poll

      • James S. Fishkin, Baogang He, Alice Siu

      Pages 229-244

   7. Reforming Peking University: A Window into Deliberative Democracy?

      • Xu Jilin

      Pages 245-257

6. Back Matter

   Pages 263-288

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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.

• China
• democracy
• democratization
• governance
• government
• Institution

'For the first time, The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China brings to light the dazzling array of experiments in local democratic governance that is unfolding in contemporary China. This collection treats readers to lively and urgent debates about whether elite deliberation, village assemblies, or deliberative polls hold the greatest promise for political reform in an authentically Chinese register. Not least because it dispels the hubris that all democratic institutions must be built on the Anglo-European blueprint, this book is a must for students of deliberative theory and democratic practice.' - Archon Fung, Associate Professor of Public Policy, Harvard University, USA

'This volume presents fresh and illuminating data and perspectives on democracy in China.' - Teresa Wright, Pacific Affairs

ETHAN J. LEIB is a Law Professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, USA.

BAOGANG HE is the Chair in International Studies at The School of Politics and International Studies, Deakin University, Australia.

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