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Oral democracy : deliberation in Indian village assemblies

"This book is a scholarly investigation into the gram sabhas' potential for enhancing the capacity of ordinary citizens to engage with democracy under the enormously wide-ranging conditions and constraints that shape life in rural India. Our data are transcripts from 298 village assemblies...

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Manylion Llyfryddiaeth
Prif Awdur: Paromita Sanyal
Awduron Eraill: Vijayendra Rao
Fformat: Printed Book
Cyhoeddwyd: New Delhi CUP 2019
Cyfres:Theories of institutional design
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Crynodeb:"This book is a scholarly investigation into the gram sabhas' potential for enhancing the capacity of ordinary citizens to engage with democracy under the enormously wide-ranging conditions and constraints that shape life in rural India. Our data are transcripts from 298 village assemblies from four neighboring South Indian states that were sampled and recorded within the framework of a natural experiment. And we use discourse analysis on this corpus of transcript data to gain insights into how India's rural citizens engage with this form of direct democracy"--
Disgrifiad Corfforoll:215p.
ISBN:9781108714532