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Oral democracy : deliberation in Indian village assemblies / Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sanyal, Paromita, author.
- Rao, Vijayendra, author.
- Series:
- Theories of institutional design.
- Theories of institutional design
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gram sabha--India.
- Gram sabha.
- Direct democracy--India.
- Direct democracy.
- Discourse analysis--Political aspects.
- Discourse analysis.
- India--Politics and government--21st century.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 215 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2019.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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 and public officials. By drawing out the varieties of speech apparent in citizen and state interactions, their analysis shows that citizens' oral participation in development and governance can be improved by strengthening deliberative spaces through policy. Even in conditions of high inequality and illiteracy, gram sabhas can create discursive equality by developing the 'oral competence' of citizens and establishing a space in which they can articulate their interests. The authors develop the concept of 'oral democracy' to aid the understanding of deliberative systems in non-Western and developing countries. This title is also available as Open Access.
- Contents:
- Discursive political culture
- Political construction, state enactments, and citizen performances
- The role of literacy in deliberative democracy
- Conclusion : oral democracy.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Jan 2019).
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9781108577229
- 1108577229
- 9781108650700
- 1108650708
- 9781139095716
- 1139095714
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