Baogang He is Alfred Deakin Professor, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Chair in International Relations since 2005, at Deakin University, Australia, and was inaugural Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Michael G Breen is a McKenzie Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne and is the author of The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground (2018, Routledge).James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, is Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and Chair of the Dept of Communication and in 2014, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Deliberative Democracy in Asia: Past, Present and Future PART 1: Village Deliberation 2 Village Deliberative Democracy and Village Governance in China 3 Indonesia: Deliberate and Deliver – Deepening Democracy through Social Accountability 4 Deliberative Democracy in Indian Villages PART 2: Deliberation in Divided Societies 5 Nepal: Participatory and Deliberative Constitution-making in a Divided Society 6 Deliberative Democracy versus Elite Deliberation in Malaysia 7 Consultation as Non-Democratic Participation: Singapore and its Implications 8 The Philippines: An Uneven Trajectory of Deliberative Democracy PART 3: Deliberative Polling 9 Democracy and Deliberative Poll on Policy Making in Japan 10 Deliberative Democracy in South Korea: Four Deliberative Polling Experiments 11 Deliberative Polling on the Amendment of the Press Law and the Audio-Visual Broadcasting Act in Macao 12 Mongolia: Piloting Elements of a Deliberative System 13 Conclusion: Comparative Questions About Deliberative Democracy in Asia

The book opens new directions for future research as it pushes the reader to think further. The acknowledgement by the authors of the diversity of deliberative practices will also have larger implications at a theoretical level of democracy. The purpose of deliberative democracy is to allow citizens to have an active role within the political process, and that can be achieved by developing a renewed approach to understanding the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of their countries. Therefore, deliberative democracy in Asia is an invaluable contribution to the discipline of political science and political theory overall. - Ekta Shaikh, University of Delhi, India in Asian Studies Review https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2022.2040081

Baogang He is Alfred Deakin Professor, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Chair in International Relations since 2005, at Deakin University, Australia, and was inaugural Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Michael G Breen is a McKenzie Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne and is the author of The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground (2018, Routledge).James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, is Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and Chair of the Dept of Communication and in 2014, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Deliberative Democracy in Asia: Past, Present and Future PART 1: Village Deliberation 2 Village Deliberative Democracy and Village Governance in China 3 Indonesia: Deliberate and Deliver – Deepening Democracy through Social Accountability 4 Deliberative Democracy in Indian Villages PART 2: Deliberation in Divided Societies 5 Nepal: Participatory and Deliberative Constitution-making in a Divided Society 6 Deliberative Democracy versus Elite Deliberation in Malaysia 7 Consultation as Non-Democratic Participation: Singapore and its Implications 8 The Philippines: An Uneven Trajectory of Deliberative Democracy PART 3: Deliberative Polling 9 Democracy and Deliberative Poll on Policy Making in Japan 10 Deliberative Democracy in South Korea: Four Deliberative Polling Experiments 11 Deliberative Polling on the Amendment of the Press Law and the Audio-Visual Broadcasting Act in Macao 12 Mongolia: Piloting Elements of a Deliberative System 13 Conclusion: Comparative Questions About Deliberative Democracy in Asia

The book opens new directions for future research as it pushes the reader to think further. The acknowledgement by the authors of the diversity of deliberative practices will also have larger implications at a theoretical level of democracy. The purpose of deliberative democracy is to allow citizens to have an active role within the political process, and that can be achieved by developing a renewed approach to understanding the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of their countries. Therefore, deliberative democracy in Asia is an invaluable contribution to the discipline of political science and political theory overall. - Ekta Shaikh, University of Delhi, India in Asian Studies Review https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2022.2040081

Baogang He is Alfred Deakin Professor, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, Chair in International Relations since 2005, at Deakin University, Australia, and was inaugural Head of Public Policy and Global Affairs at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Michael G Breen is a McKenzie Research Fellow in the School of Social and Political Sciences at The University of Melbourne and is the author of The Road to Federalism in Nepal, Myanmar and Sri Lanka: Finding the Middle Ground (2018, Routledge).James S. Fishkin holds the Janet M. Peck Chair in International Communication at Stanford University where he is Professor of Communication and Professor of Political Science, is Director of Stanford’s Center for Deliberative Democracy and Chair of the Dept of Communication and in 2014, was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

• 1 Deliberative Democracy in Asia: Past, Present and Future PART 1: Village Deliberation 2 Village Deliberative Democracy and Village Governance in China 3 Indonesia: Deliberate and Deliver – Deepening Democracy through Social Accountability 4 Deliberative Democracy in Indian Villages PART 2: Deliberation in Divided Societies 5 Nepal: Participatory and Deliberative Constitution-making in a Divided Society 6 Deliberative Democracy versus Elite Deliberation in Malaysia 7 Consultation as Non-Democratic Participation: Singapore and its Implications 8 The Philippines: An Uneven Trajectory of Deliberative Democracy PART 3: Deliberative Polling 9 Democracy and Deliberative Poll on Policy Making in Japan 10 Deliberative Democracy in South Korea: Four Deliberative Polling Experiments 11 Deliberative Polling on the Amendment of the Press Law and the Audio-Visual Broadcasting Act in Macao 12 Mongolia: Piloting Elements of a Deliberative System 13 Conclusion: Comparative Questions About Deliberative Democracy in Asia

The book opens new directions for future research as it pushes the reader to think further. The acknowledgement by the authors of the diversity of deliberative practices will also have larger implications at a theoretical level of democracy. The purpose of deliberative democracy is to allow citizens to have an active role within the political process, and that can be achieved by developing a renewed approach to understanding the social, political, economic and cultural aspects of their countries. Therefore, deliberative democracy in Asia is an invaluable contribution to the discipline of political science and political theory overall. - Ekta Shaikh, University of Delhi, India in Asian Studies Review https://doi.org/10.1080/10357823.2022.2040081