The Plight Of Urban Community Consultation And Democratic Practice And Solutions

Deliberative democracy is the emergence in the 1990s of a Western democratic theory, it is a democratic Western countries on the basis of representative reflection of the lack of freedom and democracy revival, but also reflects the continuing concern for the people’s democratic authenticity and pursuit. Although the Chinese theory of deliberative democracy into the evening in the West, but in fact, deliberative democracy in China has long been its existing form, it is a political consultation mechanism. But this is just the tip of the iceberg today we want to advocate deliberative democracy, deliberative democracy to really develop, we must radiate from the state to society overall, to a multi-level, multi-field swing. The party’s 18 large section of the report for the first time with the space, focuses on the deliberative democracy, which states that improve grassroots democracy is one of the important task of promoting the political construction and political reform should be placed on the. Clearly states that " socialist deliberative democracy is an important form of democracy in our people. Consultation system and to improve the working mechanism of democracy, promoting deliberative democracy extensive, multi-layered, institutionalized development."Here is the community of democratic grassroots democracy. With the changes in urban community development, urban community autonomy requires further expansion of community residents to participate in public affairs range, perfect and orderly participation in community governance mechanisms. Democracy also requires consultation into the urban community. Meanwhile, both from the geographical conditions, or in terms of the number of population, urban communities more qualified grassroots consultations democratic development, the better to carry out democratic consultation. The series of consultative democracy in practice the way the rise in recent years in urban communities have strong evidence of this. For example, Democratic Forum, hearings, public forums, etc. Hangzhou network. These consultations will highlight practical ways of democracy from their different perspectives of each other’s strengths to become effective urban community practice model of deliberative democracy, but at the same time, there are these kinds of negotiation dilemma: less choice of topics,active citizen participation is not high; selected to participate on behalf of arbitrariness; excessive administrative intervention; to discuss procedures are not standardized; to discuss the lack of fairness; consultations execution is not strong; lack of supervision mechanism and a series of difficulties.This article is based on a clear meaning and value of urban communities over deliberative democracy, that exists today in the process of summing up the experience of the various ways of democratic consultation practice in urban communities, to identify the current plight of the urban community consultation and democratic practice, and explore some of the responses to the plight of the final, including:the integration of the interests of residents of the community, determine the effective issues and promote community participation in the process of institutionalization of negotiations, optimize the network of community power structures, norms consultative meeting procedures, specifications discuss procedures for consultations the results of the safeguard mechanism, open and transparent consultations, establishment of monitoring mechanisms that regulate online discussion platform.