协商民主是基于西方政治制度特点产生的一种政治模式。中国特色背景下的社会主义协商民主,是我国人民民主的重要组成部分,具有坚持党的领导、人民当家做主、以公共利益为导向的特殊内涵,以及明显的集体性、直接的参与性、平等互动性与充分交流性、广泛的人民性和效果的导向性等特征。我国当前各地协商民主的实践存在纯粹形式化、认识不到位、缺乏沟通、协商能力不强等问题,社会主义协商民主的进一步完善可以在建立制度、完善机制、培育能力、创新方式等方面作出努力。

Deliberative democracy is a political model generated on the basis of the characteristics of the Western political system. However, socialist deliberative democracy with Chinese characteristics is an important component of people’s democracy in China, which has such special connotations as the adherence to the Party’s leadership, the people as masters of the country, and the orientation of public interest. Moreover, China’s socialist deliberative democracy is characterized with obvious collectivism, direct participation, equal-status interaction, full exchange of views, extensive presentation of the people’s interest and result orientation. And meanwhile, China’s current practice of deliberative democracy has such problems as pure formalism, misunderstanding, lack of communication, and weak consulting ability. In order to perfect socialist deliberative democracy in China, we should make efforts to establish a deliberative democratic system, improve the deliberative mechanism, develop the deliberative ability, and make innovations in deliberative democracy.