TY  - BOOK
AU  - Paromita Sanyal
AU  - Vijayendra Rao
TI  - Oral democracy : deliberation in Indian village assemblies
T2  - Theories of institutional design
SN  - 9781108714532
U1  - 320.840954 
PY  - 2019///
CY  - New Delhi 
PB  - CUP
KW  - Gram sabha
KW  - Direct democracy
KW  - Discourse analysis
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"--
ER  -