Review
Book Reviews: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN ASIA | Edited by Baogang He, Michael Breen, and James Fishkin
Pacific Affairs, Vol.96(2)
2023
Abstract
An alternative title for this book could be “From Frankfurt to Beijing: Deliberation and Democracy.” This is a bit tongue in cheek but underlines the fact that this book represents a new research program on the use of deliberative institutions and practices which is some distance from the original normative agenda of the Frankfurt School. This is a research agenda on actually existing deliberative institutions in democratic and authoritarian states such as China. There is a focus here on the use of deliberative polling and institutional experiments such as citizen assemblies in helping to incorporate expertise and build legitimation to solve policy problems...
Details
- Title
- Book Reviews: DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY IN ASIA | Edited by Baogang He, Michael Breen, and James Fishkin
- Authors/Creators
- Kanishka Jayasuriya
- Publication Details
- Pacific Affairs, Vol.96(2)
- Publisher
- The University of British Columbia
- Identifiers
- 991005634767207891
- Copyright
- © 2023 Pacific Affairs
- Murdoch Affiliation
- Murdoch University
- Resource Type
- Review
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