The Making and Unmaking of Local Democracy in an Indian Village

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9286845
AutoresVani S Kulkarni (autor de correspondencia)
Año2012
Volumen642
Número1
Páginas152-169
Fecha de publicación2012-06-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0002716212438207
OpenAlexW2070130380
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas27

This study is an ethnographic investigation of a gram sabha (village assembly), the cornerstone of local democracy, in Soonaghalli, in the Mandya district of Southern Karnataka, India. Observation of the meeting and informal, open-ended conversations with the key actors illuminated how democratic policies that are conceived at the global level are practiced and experienced by local community members. The article speaks to the significance of moving beyond the prevailing politico-institutional framework of democracy that is dominated by concerns about formal regime shifts and focusing on informal practices that contribute to the making and unmaking of democratic governance. The findings shed light on the varied forms that deliberative processes take and on multiple meanings of deliberative cultures, emphasizing the need for a comparative sociological inquiry into democratic practices for a richer formulation of democratic theory

Cornerstone · Corporate governance · Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Democratic governance · Democratic Theory · Ethnography · Geography · Key (lock · Local governance · Local government · Management · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Law · Public Administration · Social and Cultural Dynamics · Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies