Citizen deliberation can be divided into four types: Citizen deliberation of decision-making, citizen deliberation of hearing, citizen deliberation of consultation and citizen deliberation of coordination.

Interregional water disputes settlement based on deliberative democracy;

The study on the public policy-making democratization from the angle of deliberative democracy;

Historical origin of western deliberative democracy;

Consultative Democracy: the Innovation Way of Developing Chinese Democracy in Grass-roots Units in Future;

By comparing and analyzing the background of Western consultative democracy and motive for Chinese consultative democracy,we can find the possibility of "separation" of consultation and democracy,the practicality of their "integrity",and the unnecessary relations between the two in the process of democratization of China.

It is of practical urgency to develop consultative democracy within the CPC.

The concept of consultation democracy is analyzed.

For further development of socialist consultation democracy,we can not deviate from the basic contemporary Chinese politics.

In the initial period of the merchant movement, KMT had established the policy of using the Association of Merchant (AM) to substitute the Chamber of Commerce(CC).