ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Polit. Sci.
Sec. Comparative Governance
Volume 7 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpos.2025.1602445
This article is part of the Research TopicNon-Western Democracies – Theories, Conceptual Analyses, Case StudiesView all 5 articles
The Influencing Factors of Deliberative Capacity and Their Configuration Paths from the Perspective of Deliberative System: A Fuzzy Set Qualitative Comparative Analysis of 30 Cases
Provisionally accepted
- Taizhou Institute of Administration, Taizhou（台州）, China
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An effective measure to enhance the overall deliberative capacity of society is to promote large-scale deliberation by constructing and improving a deliberative system. Based on Dryzek's theory of deliberative system and the practical experience of Chinese grassroots deliberation, this paper conducts a configuration analysis of the influencing factors and their configuration paths of 30 cases' deliberative capacity. The results show that: all components of the deliberative system have important effects on the deliberative capacity, but no single component constitutes the necessary condition for high deliberative capacity; there are three configuration paths that give rise to high deliberative capacity, which can be divided into two types: government-single-driven type and government-society-dual-driven type. Deliberative systems with different maturity can obtain high deliberative capacity as long as they adopt the correct configuration paths; The influence of the components of a deliberative system on deliberative capacity will change with the variations of maturity of the deliberative system.
Keywords: Influencing factors, Deliberative Capacity, configuration path, Deliberative system, fsQCA (Qualitative Analysis of Fuzzy-Sets
Received: 03 Apr 2025; Accepted: 16 Jul 2025.
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* Correspondence: Han Wang, Taizhou Institute of Administration, Taizhou（台州）, China
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