The Strong Democracy and Its Revelation to Chinese Practice of Democracy

As an important representive of modern participatory democracy, Benjamin Barber claimed that theemphasis on the representative and the rejection of civic participation made liberal reduced to a kindof weak democracy. In order to fix the liberal democratic deficit, Barber advocated the adoption of the civilpractice of grassroots to foster a kind of democracy action. Barber's strong theory promoted the development of participatory and deepen people's understanding of democracy,and also created a new avenue of democratic practice, which provided a reference to the China's building of socialist democratic politics with Chinese characteristics.