Public deliberation and participation through a comparative lens : attitudes, behaviors, and institutions
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Ordinary people have been increasingly engaging in policy deliberations around the world. This dissertation studies the democratic potential of public deliberation; in particular, whether such practices live up to normative standards and benefits, and how to situate them in broader social and political contexts. The first part of the dissertation examines the psychological processes of attitudinal and behavioral changes through democratic deliberation. In a California-wide Deliberative Poll and a participatory budgeting project in a Chinese neighborhood, I find that democratic dialogues on the basis of balanced information, respect, and mutual justification nurture sophisticated public opinion and better citizenries, and such democratic merits hold true across political contexts. The second part of the dissertation studies the intriguing marriage of deliberative democracy and authoritarianism with a focus on the "socialist deliberative democracy" in China. Combining evidence from field study and national-scale data, I have shown that China has adopted consultative institutions in order to maintain social stability. Democratic deliberation is compatible with authoritarianism, though the forms and functions integrate with the native political culture and institution. Local political elites perceive and practice deliberative democracy according to their inherent democratic orientations, which may open up a promising ground for public participation, or turn it into window dressing.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2017 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Zhang, Kaiping |
|---|---|
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Communication. |
| Primary advisor | Fishkin, James S |
| Thesis advisor | Fishkin, James S |
| Thesis advisor | He, Baogang, 1957- |
| Thesis advisor | Krosnick, Jon A |
| Thesis advisor | Pan, Jennifer, 1981- |
| Advisor | He, Baogang, 1957- |
| Advisor | Krosnick, Jon A |
| Advisor | Pan, Jennifer, 1981- |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Kaiping Zhang. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Communication. |
| Thesis | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Stanford University, 2017. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2017 by Kaiping Zhang
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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