Authoritative Pattern of Chinese Deliberative Democracy——A Quantitative Analysis of the Relationship between “Authoritarian Level”and “Public Concern” in Chinese Public Price Hearing
Author(s): Qin Xuan, School of Humanity and Social Science, Nanyang Technological University
Pages: 39-45+38+157
Year: 2016 Issue: 9
Journal: Zhejiang Social Sciences
Keyword: authority; public price hearing; quantitative analysis;
Abstract: China, a country with a long history of authoritarianism is permeated with various deliberative democratic practices during the past 20 years, such as public forum, public hearing and resident’s meeting.However, most of the existing researches on Chinese deliberative democracy are qualitative analysis focused on single cases; it is hard to see quantitative studies dealing with a large number of cases to provide a comprehensive picture. My study attends to fill this gap. This study collects data of 207 public price hearings in China to test the correlation between "authoritarian level" and "public concern". Using the authoritative theory of Mark Warren, this study comes to the conclusion that both of the efficiency and legitimacy will be improved if the authoritative resources could be distributed more to the "settled" issues with less controversy.
Pages: 39-45+38+157
Year: 2016 Issue: 9
Journal: Zhejiang Social Sciences
Keyword: authority; public price hearing; quantitative analysis;
Abstract: China, a country with a long history of authoritarianism is permeated with various deliberative democratic practices during the past 20 years, such as public forum, public hearing and resident’s meeting.However, most of the existing researches on Chinese deliberative democracy are qualitative analysis focused on single cases; it is hard to see quantitative studies dealing with a large number of cases to provide a comprehensive picture. My study attends to fill this gap. This study collects data of 207 public price hearings in China to test the correlation between "authoritarian level" and "public concern". Using the authoritative theory of Mark Warren, this study comes to the conclusion that both of the efficiency and legitimacy will be improved if the authoritative resources could be distributed more to the "settled" issues with less controversy.
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