Deliberative Democracy and Urbanization in China

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Date
Tue October 6th 2015, 12:30 - 2:00pm
Event Sponsor
Stanford Global Studies - Urban Beyond Measure Initiative
Location
Mendenhall 101A, McClatchy Hall Bldg. 120 on the Main Quad.
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The Center for Deliberative Democracy (CDD) is launching the first ever workshop series on Deliberative Democracy and Urbanization. The workshop series will discuss deliberative democracy consultations, using the method of Deliberative Polling(r), in China, Uganda, and Ghana.

The first workshop on Oct. 6th of this series will focus on Deliberative Polling projects in China. The CDD started working in China in 2005 and this workshop will discuss the projects, outcomes and progress of deliberative democracy in China.  The speaker will be Dr. Han Fuguo, Associate Professor in Fudan University. Director of Center of Comparative Research of Urban Governance in Fudan University. His main fields of interest are Labor Research and Social Groups, China’s Local Democracy and Political Participation, Local Innovation and Governance.

He will be joined by Professor James Fishkin and Dr. Alice Siu both of the CDD. 

Lunch will be served. 

Please RSVP to Kathleen Giles: giles [at] stanford.edu (giles[at]stanford[dot]edu)

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