Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies

by Paromita Sanyal and Vijayendra Rao

Oral Democracy studies citizens' voices in civic and political deliberations in India's gram sabhas (village assemblies), the largest deliberative institution in human history. It analyses nearly three hundred transcripts of gram sabhas, sampled within the framework of a natural experiment, allowing the authors to study how state policy affects the quality of discourse, citizens' discursive performances and state enactments embodied by elected leaders...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107019745
• ISBN13: 9781107019744
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"