The people can tolerate elitists’claims to be superior on three conditions,relating to distributive justice,open access,and transparent deliberation.Hierarchy is acceptable as long as the elite redistribute wealth an...
The last decades have witnessed the flourishing of consultative democracy(xieshang minzhu,a concept similar to deliberative democracy)in China,with ambitions for implementing consultative politics and governance.In th...
The two passages,"Li Lou II"of the Mencius孟子·离娄下(Mencius 2A.2)and"Gongsun Chou I"of the Mencius孟子·公孙丑上(Mencius 4B.26),have been difficult to undestand for readers of all times.However,according to the her...
Deliberative governance of environmental issues indicates that environmental governance has undergone a transformation from relying on government authority for solutions to reaching consensus among participants.This c...
Along with innovation in ICT technology and the spread of the internet,the online network,through its“technological empowerment”of citizens and governments,has driven a series of institutional changes designed to pr...
Chinese President Xi Jinping, also general secretary 'of the CPC Central Committee and chairman ofthe Central Military Commission, joined a panel of deputies from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region at the first session...
Background: Health care professionals have encountered ethically difficult situations for decades in their clinical practice. Various clinical ethics support has been established in order to deal with these issues. Mo...
Urban ambient aerosols in the size range below 10 μm were measured and sampled for further evalua- tion (by Raman and Thermal-Optical analysis) of the collected material. The presented data shows that monitoring nu...
As technologies advance and replace human labor in a variety of settings,we focus our attention on human creativity for generating new ideas.Business organizations,more than ever,recognize that they need employees who...
There are increasing calls for engaging citizens in the development of future outlooks. At the same time, large-scale public engagement activities warrant appropriate methods for analyzing their outcomes. This paper r...