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Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Redistribution: The Case of the Indian Panchayats

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2020

Shirin M. Rai
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Abstract

By examining evidence from India, where quotas for women in local government were introduced in 1993, this article argues that institutional reform can disturb hegemonic discourses sufficiently to open a window of opportunity where deliberative democratic norms take root and where, in addition to the politics of recognition, the politics of redistribution also operates.

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Revisioning Deliberation
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Hypatia , Volume 22 , Issue 4: Special Issue: Democratic Theory , Fall 2007 , pp. 64 - 80
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Copyright © 2007 by Hypatia, Inc.

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