The Search for Deliberative Democracy in China

This book investigates whether the theory of “deliberative democracy”--developed in the West to focus democratic theory on the legitimization that deliberation can afford--has any application to Chinese processes of democratization. It discovers pockets of theory especially useful to guide Chinese practices and pockets of Chinese practice that can, in turn, educate the West on possibilities for innovative uses of deliberative democratic theory.

Ethan J. Leib is a law professor at the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.

Baogang He is the Chair in International Studies at The School of Politics and International Studies, Deakin University, Australia.