Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics - A Tale of Two Chinese Cities’ Participatory Budgeting Experiences

Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level.

List of contents

Acknowledgments
1. Deliberation with Chinese Characteristics
2. From Deliberative Democracy to Deliberative Governance
3. Authoritarian Deliberative Governance in China
4. Why did Deliberative Practices Emerge in China?
5. Deliberative Budgeting in Wenling: Pioneer in Deliberative PB
6. Deliberative Budgeting in Chengdu: Localising Deliberation to Address Spatial Development
7. A Tale of Two Models of Authoritarian Deliberative Governance
8. Deliberative Form of Governance in China as a New Form of Regime Legitimacy?
9. Conclusion
References
Methodological Appendix
Index

About the author

Su Yun Woo is Post-Doctoral Researcher in Chinese Politics at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.

Summary

Woo investigates examples of the Chinese government using methods normally associated with deliberative democracy to involve their citizenry in decision-making at a sub-national level.

Product details

• Authors: Su Yun Woo
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.10.2024
• EAN: 9781032319254
• ISBN: 978-1-032-31925-4
• No. of pages: 200
• Weight: 380 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
• Series: Routledge Contemporary China Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Comparative Politics, Social and cultural anthropology, Civil rights & citizenship, Civics and citizenship