Paromita Sanyal, Vijayendra Rao

Oral Democracy

Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 162mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781107019744
• ISBN-10: 1107019745
• Artikelnr.: 53170640

Autorenporträt

Paromita Sanyal is an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Florida State University. She has written Credit to Capabilities: A Sociological Study of Microcredit Groups in India (Cambridge, 2014), which won an Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association. Her work has also been published in leading sociology journals, including the American Sociological Review.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Discursive political culture
3. Political construction, state enactments, and citizen performances
4. The role of literacy in deliberative democracy
5. Conclusion: oral democracy.