The Exploration of Chinese Deliberate Democracy and Local Governance: Experience from the Villages Council in Chengdu City, China
Local governance and local democracy have become noticeably and widely used analytic concepts among public administration and public policy. Some institutional innovations similar to the Western citizen conference are forging ahead in rural China. Villages council innovated by Chengdu City of West China is one typical case among these innovations. Based on the analysis framework of deliberate democracy and consensus conference, this article describes the process of the case of rural property right system reform in Qionglai, Chengdu city and analyses its functions and value, and then points out the dimensions of its improvement respectively. The article argues based on Chengdu; case that villages council is an effective mechanism to give rural people access to basic rights, going further with democratic decision-making, management and supervision, and villages council, as a kind of Chinese deliberate democracy, indicates the gradual shaping of deliberative-cooperative local governance model in rural China. The article comes to a conclusion that if Chinas governing elites can change the experiences of Villages council created by Chengdus leaders and people into the laws concerned, we could know the possibility of greatly promoting the participation capability of citizens, forming rational speculation and the civic virtue of positive participation.
Local governance Local democracy Participation capability of .citizens Villages council
YANG Yi-fan DONG Yue PENG An-ya
School of Public Administration, Southwest Jiaotong University, Chengdu, P.R. China., 610031
国际会议
2012 International Conference on Public Administration(8th)(2012年公共管理国际会议 ICPA)
印度海德拉巴
英文
520-525
2012-10-25（万方平台首次上网日期，不代表论文的发表时间）