Oral Democracy
Subtitle: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Feb 28, 2019
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781107019744
Description: "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"--
Notes: Source title: Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies (Theories of Institutional Design)