Participatory Democracy Theory Research

Democratic theory and system which stemed,improved and established fromdeveloped country,hanging the human political ideal and pursuit for thousands ofyears.Human never reach an agreement about democratic values and expectationduring the process of being discussed,improved by people.When practice ofliberalism democracy gradually revealed many shortcomings in20thcentury，thecontemporary western participatory democracy theory provided improved schemesuch as citizen actively and orderly participated in public affairs in the framework ofrepresentative democracy.All that brought about the deeper,more extensiveparticipation in politics of citizen.The paper pursue main line of citizen’s participation and take developing processof participatory democracy theory as time axis as well as Dewey, Cole, Lindsay,Arendt,Barber’s thoughts as representative theory.Logic reconstruction and scientificanalysis have been to western participatory democracy theory.It introduces basicconnotation of participatory democracy theory and practical background which madeparticipatory democracy theory come into being.Besides it seeks implications ofwestern participatory democracy theory to the Chinese democratic politicaldevelopment.The epilogue affirm positive significance of participatory democracy theory forthe Chinese democratic development, The participatory democracy pattern suggestdemocracy of ordinary people from bottom of society make up the deficiency ofrepresentative system democracy,defuse a crisis of the contemporary westernliberalism democracy focuse on elitism after World War Ⅱ，expand the ordinarycitizen’s democratic rights and the role in the social political life,open up a newdevelopment direction for contemporary democracy.