The Transformative Power of Deliberative Democracy in East Asia

1. The Dynamics and Evolution of Deliberative Democracy in East Asia: A Deliberative Systems Perspective

Mei-Fang Fan 

Part I. Digital Deliberation, Technology Governance and AI

2. Political Dynamic Shaping Public Support Technology Governance in the Metaverse: Evidence from Deliberative Polling in East Asia

Alice Siu, Shinya Wakao and Hugo Tai

3. Public Deliberation on Responsible AI Innovation: Insights from a Nationwide Online Deliberative Forum in Taiwan

Mei-Fang Fan and Alice Siu

4. The Transformative and Legitimacy Functions of Public Deliberation: The Alignment Assembly on Utilizing AI to Enhance Information Integrity in Taiwan

Mei-Fang Fan

Part II. Participatory Budgeting and Governance Innovation

5. Participatory Budgeting in East Asia: Making PB More Deliberative

Baogang He

6. Participatory Budgeting in Taipei City: Shaping Deliberative Governance and Coproducing Environmental Sustainability

Mei-Fang Fan and Kuan-Chiu Tseng 

Part III. Institutional Deliberation, Reflection and Prospects

7. Parliament Reforms: Toward a Deep Deliberation

Yasunori Sone

8. Deliberating on the Construction of Shin-Kori Unit 5 and 6: A Deliberative Poll for National Decision Making on South Korea’s Nuclear Energy Policy

Kyu S. Hahn

9. When Deliberation is Unequal: Opinion Minorities, Opinion Support, and Opinion Change in Small Group Deliberation

Nuri Kim

10. Deliberating Solar Energy Futures Online: A Comparative Analysis of Digital Citizen Engagement in Tokyo and Hong Kong

Victor Wai-Yin Lam, Daphne Nagar-Yin Mah, Darren Man-Wai Cheung, Alice Siu, Benjamin Mclellan and Shinya Wakao

11. Culture, Reasoning and the Epistemic Quality of Deliberation

James Wong

12. Conclusion: Moving Forward on Deliberative Democracy in East Asia

Alice Siu

Biography

Mei-Fang Fan is Distinguished Professor at the Institute of Science, Technology and Society, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University and Associate Editor of Environmental Science & Policy. Research interests include environmental politics, deliberative democracy, public engagement in science and technology, and risk governance. She is the author of Deliberative Democracy in Taiwan: A Deliberative Systems Perspective (Routledge, 2021).

Alice Siu is Associate Director of the Deliberative Democracy Lab and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Democracy, Development, and Rule of Law housed at the Freeman Spogli Institute at Stanford University. She is a lead collaborator on the AI-assisted Stanford Online Deliberation Platform, a partnership with the Crowdsourced Democracy Team at Stanford University.