Deliberative inequality : a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies (English)

The resurgence of deliberative institutions in the developing world has prompted a renewed interest in the dynamics of citizen engagement. Using text-as-data methods on an original corpus of village assembly transcripts from rural Tamil Nadu, India, this paper opens the "black box" of deliberation to examine the gendered and status-based patterns of influence. Drawing on normative theories of deliberation, this analysis identifies a set of clear empirical...

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Parthasarathy,Ramya;

Rao,Vijayendra;

Palaniswamy,Nethra;
Document Date
2017/06/27
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS8119
Volume No
1
Total Volume(s)
1
Country
India,
Region
South Asia,
Disclosure Date
2017/06/27
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Deliberative inequality : a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies
Keywords
Housing and Land

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Parthasarathy,Ramya; Rao,Vijayendra; Palaniswamy,Nethra.

Deliberative inequality : a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies (English). Policy Research working paper|no. WPS 8119 Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/582551498568606865

Deliberative inequality : a text-as-data study of Tamil Nadu's village assemblies (English)

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