Kanishka Jayasuriya

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...