A Research To Improve Local Deliberative Democracy In The Network Time

Deliberative Democracy Theory is a democratic theory that rose in Western political academia in the late 20th century, which attracted the close attention of the Scholars of our country in recent years. The Scholars try to dig out the essence of the theory, and bring them in line with traditional Chinese values and the characteristics of the times together. Especially under the condition of the network, base on the characters of equality, freedom, openness, interaction, and non-center, the networks nearly have the same characters with deliberative democracy, it's the scientific and technological power of deliberative democracyDeliberative Democracy is a useful complement and development to the present democratic political system of China. It makes up for the shortcomings in electoral democracy. It is still another Institutionalized choice when we want to face the challenge of pluralistic society, or achieve an orderly citizen political participation, adapt to the risk social governance, and promote the development of ecological civilization. How to have a combination of the concept of deliberative democracy and national conditions of china? The local regions are the final destination the focus of Deliberative Democracy, no matter we start from the own characteristics of deliberative democracy or the reality of our country's democracy, no matter the push power is from up to down or from down to up, no matter how the condition of the political participation of the networks or the requires of the political participation in real life are. The local government should change the present public decision-making way, use the concept of deliberative democracy to adapt to the Standardized and institutionalized requirements of political participation in the time of networks, base on the characteristics of political participation of the networks time.As a typical case or expression form of local deliberative democracy, Xiamen PX Event is a vivid portrayal of how to show the negotiation move from the virtual to reality. It is a true show of the practice and the applicability of local deliberative democracy in the time of network. The important role of the Scholars in the case Xiamen PX, the push power of network political participation and the "walk event" have become a distinct characteristics of the practice of deliberative democracy in Xiamen. At the same time ,this Section still put forward some suggestion base on the Depth analysis of the problems raised from Xiamen PX Event, and hope it would offer some useful experience to the deliberative democracy practice of other local places.