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Oral democracy : deliberation in Indian village assemblies / Vijayendra Rao, Paromita Sanyal

Author
Rao, Vijayendra
Published
Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2019]
Physical Description
xi, 215 pages ; 24 cm.
Additional Creators
Sanyal, Paromita

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Contents
Discursive political culture -- Political construction, state enactments, and citizen performances -- The role of literacy in deliberative democracy -- Conclusion : oral democracy.
Summary
"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"--
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ISBN
9781107019744 hardback
1107019745 hardback
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references.
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