Chinese Cooperative-Harmonious Democracy

<p>After several decades of reform and opening up China has come to a critical period of transformation and development. How to improve the development strategies to effectively promote China's democratic politics has once again attracted the world's attention.</p> <p></p> <p>This book compares the commons and differences between western and Chinese theories and practices of democracy model and proposes a new democracy model for China's political reform - cooperative-harmonious democracy. Absorbing the core values of democracy this model draws on Chinese traditional harmony and cooperation and people-oriented thought as well as modern cooperative game theory. More importantly it adopts the new model to analyse some present practice cases in China involving intra-party democracy electoral democracy and deliberative democracy.</p> <p></p> <p>This book is a valuable theoretical innovation and a significant achievement in promoting the interdisciplinary research of political science and public management. It strategically reflects on how to promote the development of cooperative-harmonious democracy from the perspective of high-level design. The policy suggestions it proposed will be a valuable reference for policy-makers.</p>