TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rao,Vijayendra
AU  - Sanyal,Paromita
TI  - Oral democracy: deliberation in Indian village assemblies 
T2  - Theories of institutional design
SN  - 9781107019744
AV  - JSb7013 R36 2019
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - Cambridge, United Kingdom, New York, NY
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Gram sabha
KW  - India
KW  - Direct democracy
KW  - Discourse analysis
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 21st century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; Discursive political culture -- Political construction, state enactments, and citizen performances -- The role of literacy in deliberative democracy -- Conclusion : oral democracy
N2  - "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"--
UR  - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1M0jJJPJifrHZb8dhZn78CqzAK5Dc8KQU/view?usp=sharing
ER  -