Abstract
The 18th CPC National Congress officially confirmed the concept of “consultative democracy” in the form of the report of the CPC Congress and identified it as the direction and key task of development of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics at the current stage. Dividing democratic politics formalistically into consultative democracy and electoral democracy is a sinicized classification method for democratic politics and reflects a concept of democracy with Chinese characteristics. Distinguishing consultative democracy and electoral democracy, proposing the concept of consultative democracy and identifying consultative democracy as the direction and key task of development of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics at the current stage is an important feature of Chinese-style democracy and the important experience acquired in the long-term exploration on building of democratic politics.
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Fang, N. (2015). Key Priorities for Democracy Building in China: The Development of Consultative Democracy. In: China’s Democracy Path. China Insights. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47343-6_5
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