The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy

协商民主的理论与实践。该项目通过对不同国家民主创新的比较案例分析，将协商民主理论与制度创新联系起来，使两者受益。人们假设，特定类型的制度创新(如共识会议、政策对话、对话网络)在不同的政治背景下会产生截然不同的效果。如果是这样的话，那么几乎所有民主理论对民主模式的强调都是错误的：相反，理论家应该关注特定背景下的民主化进程。比较案例分析的结果将被用来反思和重新阐述协商民主理论。

The Theory and Practice of Deliberative Democracy. This project links the theory of deliberative democracy to institutional innovation, to benefit both, through comparative case analyses of democratic innovations in different countries. It is hypothesized that particular kinds of institutional innovation (such as consensus conferences, policy dialogues, dialogical networks) will work out quite differently in different political contexts. If so, then the emphasis of almost all democratic theory on models of democracy is misplaced: instead, theorists should attend to processes of democratization in particular contexts. The results of the comparative case analyses will be used to reflect back upon, and reformulate, deliberative democratic theory.