Open Space Technology:Making Deliberative Democracy Work

Nowadays deliberative democracy has become a research focus in domestic theoretical circle.Along with the precess of the national system of governance and management ability of modernization, the deliberative democracy study turns from theoretical aspect to practical aspect,which comes as an unique type and advantage. for socialist democratic politics.To push ahead the deliberative democracy to a multilayer system wide trance,making it working becomes a frontier issue,during which democratic technology must be an essential factor.The research on deliberate democracy has focused on the factors like rights, governmental notion and technology, but the lack of technological space knowledge for politics makes the deliberate practice "hanging" without conducted procedure, process or solidity. The deliberative practice at present faces the problem of enthusiasm without ideas, targets without method, thinkings without measures,it’s a long way to push forward deliberate democracy integrate into grassroots China.So,this easy links the democratic technology with deliberate democracy, and hold the point that technology makes democracy come true.The article raises technological method with notion-reliable, rules-clear, procedure-distinct, technique-feasible to support deliberate practice,develop the deliberate space and make the deliberate democracy work.This essay introduces Open Space Technology into grassroots deliberative practice., by presenting the cause, procedure,principles and also a detailed example conducted in Juer community in Beijing Dongcheng District. Here the essay introduces the theoretical significances in deliberative democracy and practical importance in grassroots deliberative conduction, which matches the value of deliberative democracy well. To make it more clear, the essay give a meticulous comparation between Open Space Technology and Wenling-earnest talk and also Nantang village-deliberative experiment, during which it explains the advantages in high involvement, fair participation,possible expression for appeal, high degree of common view in deliberative practice in grassroots negotiation.Then the essay illustrates the technology-involved deliberation achieving the traditional consulting transferring from attendance to participation, from assembling to discussing, further more,According this the essay goes deeply into talking about why we deliberate,with whom we deliberate,how to deliberate and how to guarantee efficient deliberation for the meaning of Chinese grassroots deliberative democracy.Technology-involved deliberative practice on one hand enriches the connotation of deliberative democracy, on the other hand further expands the space of grassroots deliberate experiments. This pour new factors into Chinese characteristic deliberate including democratic aspect, independent host institution,citizens-training procedure,part-involved talking system.Also,in the aspect of deliberative practice, this explores the realization system for deliberative democracy, which contains participating institution,processing institution,feedbacking system and guaranteeing system for grassroots deliberate.In this way, the technology-involved deliberate make the deliberative theory abundance and the deliberative practice prolongation,push forward the deliberate democracy working well.