关键词: 民主模式, 文明基因, 西式民主, 人民民主, 协商民主

Abstract: The diverse landscape of democratic development in todays world has made democratic models a core issue in political science research. The discourse of the “universality” of Westernstyle democracy squeezes the living space of nonWestern democracies and is unable to explain the richness of democratic practices around the world. From the perspective of comparisons across civilizations, the diversity of civilizations has shaped the diversity of democratic models. Democratic models are born in specific civilizations and can be divided into “models of value” shaped by civilizational genes and “models of practice” generated based on “models of value”. The Christian ideology of Western civilization has given rise to liberal democracy as a value model and implemented liberal values through the practice model of the democracy with party competition. The Chinese civilization, on the other hand, has formed peoples democracy in the value dimension and consultative democracy in the practice dimension by continuing the tradition of peoplecentered governance and absorbing the peoplecentered nature of Marxism. Only by clarifying theoretically the civilizational underpinnings of democratic models can we promote the common development of different democratic models through mutual learning and exchange.

Key words: democratic model, civilizational gene, Western-style democracy, people's democracy, consultative democracy