关键词: 协商民主, 协商, 中国式民主, 中国逻辑

Abstract: The key to understanding socialist consultative democracy is to place it in the Chinese context instead of following the existing Western paradigm. Placing “deliberative democracy” and understanding the connotation of the concept of “deliberation” in the Chinese context, this paper analyzes the historical inheritance and contemporary practice of “deliberative democracy” from the perspective of Chinas historical tradition and modern life, providing a reference for building a theoretical system of socialist consultative democracy. Consultation is a wellknown historical discourse and commutative tradition and the culture of consultation since ancient times gives birth to modern consultative democracy in the country. Since its founding, the Communist Party of China has carried out the democratic transformation of consultation in three dimensions, enabling the evolution of consultation in the process of modernization and breaking the limitations of traditional consultation. Generally speaking, socialist consultative democracy is “unique, distinct, and original” under the guidance of Marxism, the shaping of ethics and sociality, the construction of institutions, and the cooperation with other forms of democracy. The construction of socialist consultative democracy shows that the Chinese democracy is an endogenous evolutionary process, and only by breaking through the restrictions of Western modernization can the advantages and characteristics of the Chinese democracy be fully demonstrated.

Key words: consultative democracy, consultation, the Chinese democracy, the Chinese logic