Editors’ Introduction

He, Baogang; Leib, Ethan J.

doi:10.1057/9780312376154_1

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“…The term authoritarian deliberation was originally coined in a book chapter (He, 2006: 134–5) and later developed into a more rigorous theoretical construct (He and Warren, 2011). It was further explored through examining the historical, cultural, linguistic, and moral sources of authoritarian deliberation, demonstrating its long cultural and political life as well as its problematic areas (He, 2014).…”

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Authoritarian deliberation revisited

Wagenaar

2018

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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This introductory paper reviews the origin and development of the concept of authoritarian deliberation, and highlights the importance of culture and cultural tradition associated with public consultation. This paper summarizes and illustrates six key features of authoritarian deliberation in China. First, deliberation in China is a precarious balance between legal rule and state intervention. Second, the Party appeals to public reason to address and manage social conflict, and develop the soft coercion that accompanies much authoritarian deliberation. Third, this highly controlled deliberative process does, however, allow the freedom of local participants to find spaces for democratic expression, and local experiments to develop elements of deliberative democracy. Fourth, authoritarian deliberation is characterized by mutual instrumentalism. Fifth, there is an importance of an administrative and policy perspective in authoritarian deliberation. Six, the concept of authoritarian deliberation is not limited to China. There is the convergence in real-world deliberative process and outcome between authoritarian and liberal democratic systems.

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Authoritarian deliberation revisited

Wagenaar

2018

Japanese Journal of Political Science

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“…However, the deliberative approach did not receive much attention or scholarly treatment until the arrival of the new millennium and the ensuing governmental impetus toward a deliberative model. Since the late 1990s, a wide variety of deliberative innovations organized by the government – from the local to the national scale on topics from the governmental budget to transportation prices and in locales from villages to metropolises – have thrived (He, 2006). According to the data, in 2004, the number of meetings with deliberative elements at the village level in China was estimated to be 453,000 (He, 2007).…”

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“…In China, public deliberation (or consultation) has been institutionalized in recent decades on topics ranging from government budgets to transportation prices and in locales from villages to metropolises (He, 2006). These government-led deliberative practices in China are different from their counterparts in most liberal democracies, where they supplement existing aggregative democratic systems.…”

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Deliberation, demobilization, and limited empowerment: a survey study on participatory pricing in China

Qin

2018

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Authoritarian deliberation has been used widely to describe the specific form of deliberation developed in China. However, whether its practice will strengthen authoritarianism or lead to democratization remains unknown. In this study, we examine this question from the perspective of participants in public deliberation. Surveying the participants in participatory pricings held in Shanghai over the past 5 years, we find that participants’ perception of deliberative quality has a statistically significant negative impact on their level of political activism, while their level of empowerment has a moderating effect on this negative relationship. In this light, Chinese deliberative practices characterized by high-quality deliberation and low-level empowerment are likely to have a demobilization effect; thus, they reinforce the authoritarian rules.

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“…In local planning, government authorities use consultative meetings, public hearings and citizen evaluation meetings are used to illicit opinions on various policy issues (He, 2006; Zhou, 2012). Other interactive elements include limited experimentation with participatory budgeting, deliberation in village politics and elections, and public internet forums for citizen discussions (He and Warren, 2011).…”

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Techno-economic rationalities as a political practice in urban environmental politics in China

Westman

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2018

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space

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This article argues that techno-economic rationalities dominate urban environmental policy interventions and sustainability discourses in China. This is so despite recent trends toward diversification of actors and participatory approaches in environmental governance. The paper is based on material collected through interviews with public officials, urban planners, researchers, companies, and nongovernmental organizations working with sustainability issues in cities in China. Our empirical material shows that diversification of actors does not translate into a diversification of policy discourses. Instead, groups with technical expertise or economic resources dominate processes of environmental governance. To explain this tendency, we draw on insights from theories of technocracy. We argue that the concept of techno-economic rationalities explains why considerable leverage over sustainability-related policy decisions is created for non-state actors with access to technical expertise or economic resources, while groups who lack such resources are permanently excluded. In the case of China, this means systematically overlooking social and environmental priorities, which may cement nondemocratic decision making and increase social tensions.

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Editors’ Introduction

Cited by 4 publications

References 17 publications

Authoritarian deliberation revisited

Authoritarian deliberation revisited

Deliberation, demobilization, and limited empowerment: a survey study on participatory pricing in China

Techno-economic rationalities as a political practice in urban environmental politics in China

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