Finding Path to the Institutionalization of Deliberative Democracy: The Pilot Legislative Practices of Environmental Governance

Dimin Zhu, Fan Yang

Ekoloji, 2018, Issue 106, Pages: 55-61, Article No: e106017

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Abstract

The deficiency of legalization of Deliberative Democracy restricts its further development, and it needs learning from experiences of other legislations. In fact, environmental protection, as the earliest and the most dynamic area of practices of Deliberative Democracy, has great progress in the legislation of public participation, with development in legal principles, contents and procedural guarantee. It can be examples for the other areas of Deliberative Democracy.

Keywords

public participation in environmental protection, deliberative democracy, institutionalization, legislation

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