A Study On The Connotation Of Deliberative Democracy And Its Applicability In China

Since the1980s, The discussions about the direction of China’sdemocratic politics caused concern in the world, Deliberative democracywhich became school of learning in1990s, in particular remarkable.Then how is the applicability of deliberative democracy in China? Theanswer needs to be based on the grasp of the Connotation ofdeliberative democracy, and the understanding of democratic politicaldevelopment. Scholars generally believe that deliberative democracy isthe revival of classical democracy on democratic values and procedures,it’s participation not election is the way to democracy, emphasize on thatthrough dialogue to change preferences, and reach an agreement. In thisregard, Deliberative democracy plays an direct and effective role in promoting citizen participation, enhancing citizens’ knowledge, Ensuringthe scientific and legitimacy of decision-making, consolidating andimproving the quality of democracy. Moreover, deliberative democracyre-affirmed the normative significance of democracy will be alert to theexisting democratic system. But it’s also the biggest challenge fordeliberative democracy, essentially deliberative democracy is the ideal ofdemocracy, even a utopia, however since democracy emerged, what itpaid close attention to is the legitimacy of power Source, namely,“thedemocracy of regime”, not just “democracy of governing power”. For themodern society, Representative system still will be the mainstream ofdemocracy, deliberative democracy could to be the Supplement not theSubstitution for representative system.As the actual terms of the current China, On the one hand, thereality of increasingly diversified economy and society has increasinglyurgent demand for the development of democracy, on the other hand,China two thousand years of political tradition still has a profound effecton Chinese politics, it doesn’t advocate competing values of democracy.Moreover, carrying on democratic political reform in a country which islack of democratic tradition of the rule of law, still hiding danger.Chinacan learn from deliberative democracy, continue to develop the ChinesePeople’s political and the Democratic practice which rised in recent years.But in fact these practices aren’t the real deliberative democracy, it can be seen as consultative democracy. Although the real deliberativedemocracy built the blueprint for the democracy ideal, the conditionsand the cost is too high to make it true in modern society, furthermore,the political development of China couldn’t against the trend of thetimes, whether to think over the legitimacy of the powersource, oroperating efficiency of modern politics, representative democracy stillhave the irreplaceable historical status.