How to Effectively Connect Grassroots Consultation and Democracy:Cases Study on the Construction of"Negotiation Stations"in Zhejiang Village Communities
The effective connection of consultative democracy at the grassroots level is an inevitable requirement for the widespread,multi-layered institutionalization of consultative democracy.Based on the case study of four village and community"consultation stations"in Zhejiang Province,this paper reexamines the effectiveness of grassroots consultative democracy from two aspects:the selection of consultation topics and the motivation of consultation subjects.The degree of administrative and politicization of national and social consultations determines the normative and factual degree of consultation connection,thus forming four basic types of the grassroots consultation democratic connection,namely reconcilable consultation,integrated consultation,converged consultation,and aggregated consultation.To promote the effective connection of the grassroots consultative democracy,we should consider the traditional pragmatism of consultation,pay attention to the realism of consultation issues,and examine the activism of negotiation subjects.
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