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
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 co...
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| description | 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. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e1ee58dd92a841e7804963df81e3785a2025-08-20T03:40:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Political Science2673-31452025-08-01710.3389/fpos.2025.16024451602445The influencing factors of deliberative capacity and their configuration paths from the perspective of deliberative system: a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 30 casesHan Wang0Hui Xie1Lulu Zhu2Siqi Liang3Taizhou Institute of Administration, Taizhou, ChinaCommunication University of Zhejiang, Hangzhou, ChinaTaizhou Institute of Administration, Taizhou, ChinaTaizhou Institute of Administration, Taizhou, ChinaAn 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.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2025.1602445/fullinfluencing factorsdeliberative capacityconfiguration pathdeliberative systemqualitative analysis of fuzzy-sets (fsQCA) |
| spellingShingle | Han Wang Hui Xie Lulu Zhu Siqi Liang 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 Frontiers in Political Science influencing factors deliberative capacity configuration path deliberative system qualitative analysis of fuzzy-sets (fsQCA) |
| title | 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 |
| title_full | 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 |
| title_fullStr | 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 |
| title_full_unstemmed | 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 |
| title_short | 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 |
| title_sort | influencing factors of deliberative capacity and their configuration paths from the perspective of deliberative system a fuzzy set qualitative comparative analysis of 30 cases |
| topic | influencing factors deliberative capacity configuration path deliberative system qualitative analysis of fuzzy-sets (fsQCA) |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpos.2025.1602445/full |
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