Carol Pateman's Theory Of Participatory Democracy And Its Enlightenment To Our Country's Deliberative Democracy

Western democratic theory research has been praised by academic circles to the attention of,and with the constant improvement of the degree of social democratization,the study of democracy also gradually turned to the citizen to participate in the discussions,participatory democracy thus gained wider attention.As the most representative figure of participatory democracy theory,the study of participatory democracy is necessarily inseparable from the in-depth study and analysis of its theoretical propositions.First page terman contemporary democratic theorists discussed in their respective claims and points of view,probes into the relationship between participation and democracy,pointed out the participation has the function of education and to emphasize the importance of democratic participation in construction;Second page terman and will participate in the field of locking in the workplace,especially for industrial democratization within the field of in-depth discussions,think is the most basic of citizen participation is the key to achieve real democracy,also cited the yugoslav worker self-management this example to verify the participatory society build beautiful blueprint.Can say palin terman participatory democracy theory correction and improve the liberalism of the disadvantage of representative democracy and Renaissance of the participation in the democratic theory of status,also to a great extent,promote the emergence and development of the deliberative democracy theory.At the same time there is no denying that its theory claims that also has certain limitation,exaggerated the function of the involved in making the theory of a tendency to participate in one-sidedly,and because palin terman avoid the potential problems between freedom and democracy,makes the feasibility of participatory democracy also was suspected by many scholars.But even so,the participatory democratic thought of peitman has great enlightenment and help to the development of China's deliberative democracy,especially China's grassroots deliberative democracy.