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Sahgal, Rishika. "Strengthening Democracy in India through Participation Rights." Verfassung in Recht und Übersee 53, no. 4 (2020): 468–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.5771/0506-7286-2020-4-468.

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This paper is contextualised around the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act 2006 in India, which recognises both individual and community rights of the Scheduled Tribes and other traditional forest dwellers relating to forest land and forest produce. The Forest Rights Act, along with the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996, also recognises decision-making power of the Scheduled Tribes to make decisions regarding claims on forest land. The paper argues that the recognition of such participation rights, broadly understood as the right to participate in specific decisions that impact our other rights, can be an important means for strengthening democracy in India. This creates space for oppressed communities who may face exclusion in other institutions, to directly participate in decisions involving their substantive rights. It holds the potential to deepen a deliberative version of democracy, creating space for discussion and deliberation within communities while deciding questions regarding their rights, rather than a version of democracy based on interest-bargaining and power-play. Participation rights may also serve as an important tool for oppressed people to secure their substantive rights, such as the right to forest land. The paper therefore contributes to wider debates around democracy and rights. It explores what we understand by ‘democracy’, advocating for a deliberative view of democracy. It explores how democracy relates to rights, both participation rights and substantive rights. Lastly, it evaluates the design of existing participation rights - the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 - to examine whether these are designed to deepen deliberative democracy and secure substantive rights. It concludes that existing participation rights are flawed, but there is potential to interpret these in a manner that strengthens deliberative democracy, and the ability of participation right to secure substantive rights to forests, by relying on the Indian Supreme Court’s jurisprudence in Orissa Mining Corporation.
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Menon, Sanskriti, Janette Hartz-Karp, and Dora Marinova. "Can Deliberative Democracy Work in Urban India?" Urban Science 5, no. 2 (April 26, 2021): 39. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/urbansci5020039.

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India faces extensive challenges of rapid urbanization and deficits in human well-being and environmental sustainability. Democratic governance is expected to strengthen public policies and efforts towards sustainability. This article presents a study in Pune, India, which aimed at exploring perceptions about public participation in urban governance and the potential of high-quality public deliberation to meet deficits. The research reveals disaffection of the public with government decision-making and government-led participation. Further, it shows that people are interested in participating in community life and seek to be partners in civic decision-making, but find themselves unable to do so. The study illustrates that high-quality public deliberations facilitated by an independent third party can provide a satisfactory space of participation, learning, and developing balanced outcomes. Citizens expressed readiness for partnership, third-party facilitation, and support from civic advocacy groups. Challenges with regard to government commitment to deliberative democracy will need to be overcome for a purposeful shift from conventional weak to empowered participation of ordinary citizens in civic decision-making. We anticipate that while institutionalization of high-quality public deliberations may take time, civil society-led public deliberations may help raise community expectations and demand for induced deliberative democracy.
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Menon, Sanskriti, and Janette Hartz-Karp. "Linking Traditional ‘Organic’ and ‘Induced’ Public Participation with Deliberative Democracy: Experiments in Pune, India." Journal of Education for Sustainable Development 13, no. 2 (September 2019): 193–214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0973408219874959.

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Resolving urban challenges or ‘wicked problems’ is a dilemma for most governments, especially in developing countries, and India is a case in point. Collaborative, dialogue-based approaches have been posited as critical to addressing wicked problems. This would require a reform of Indian cities’ governance systems to enable citizens to be embedded in decision-making about complex issues. This article contends that while India’s traditional forms of civic participation can provide a strong foundation for reform, new forms of representative deliberative, influential public participation, that is, deliberative democracy, will be important. Traditional organic and induced participation examples in India are overviewed in terms of their strengths and gaps. Two deliberative democracy case studies in Pune, India, are described, and their potential for reform is assessed. Traditional, together with innovative, induced and organic participation in governance, will be needed to overcome significant pitfalls in governance if Indian cities are to become more capable of addressing urban sustainability challenges.
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Lloyd, Keith. "The Impulse to Rhetoric in India: Rhetorical and Deliberative Practices and Their Relation to the Histories of Rhetoric and Democracy." Journal for the History of Rhetoric 21, no. 3 (September 2018): 223–46. http://dx.doi.org/10.5325/jhistrhetoric.21.3.0223.

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ABSTRACT Scholars of rhetoric have long held that there is such a thing as a “rhetorical tradition” and that that tradition began within the context of ancient Athenian democracy. Recently this tradition has been expanded to “traditions” that include “non-Western” approaches. Scholars of democracy have similarly dislodged the notion that democracy, broadly understood, developed only in ancient Greece. This essay expands our understanding of both rhetorical traditions and their relation to democracy by studying the interrelation of rhetorical and deliberative practices found in the history of India. Specifically, it explores how one highly influential school of Indian deliberation, Nyaya, grew alongside practices of public reasoning and self-rule in the gaṇa/saṁgha (so-called ancient Indian “republics”), revealing a similar, but unique, impulse to rhetoric beyond the Athenian/Western context. From this study we also gain insight into the current struggle for democracy worldwide.
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Kaur, Rajinder, Rashmi Aggarwal, and Jagteshwar Singh Sohi. "Justice Verma committee: an illustration of deliberative democracy in India." International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies 5, no. 1 (2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2017.082687.

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Kaur, Rajinder, Rashmi Aggarwal, and Jagteshwar Singh Sohi. "Justice Verma committee: an illustration of deliberative democracy in India." International Journal of Human Rights and Constitutional Studies 5, no. 1 (2017): 5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1504/ijhrcs.2017.10003661.

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Mitchell, Lisa. "Civility and collective action: Soft speech, loud roars, and the politics of recognition." Anthropological Theory 18, no. 2-3 (June 2018): 217–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1463499618782792.

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Analyzing the relationship between collective action and civility within the world’s largest democracy, this essay argues that, rather than being a precondition for democratic participation or a quality of individual comportment or manners, civility can be analyzed as an effect of political recognition and of the existence of a responsive structure of authority. Using ethnographic examples of recent collective assemblies held in southern India, the essay demonstrates the limits of both deliberative democracy approaches (Dryzek, Habermas, Rawls, Benhabib, Cohen, Farrelly) and agonistic pluralist models (Mouffe, Connolly, Honig, Arendt) for understanding democracy. If individual speech action is understood to run the gamut from polite and constructive participation in deliberation to antagonistic incivility, collective action is framed by both models as inherently oppositional and adversarial, rejecting or resisting authority and protesting against it, running a narrower gamut from agonistic intervention, which frames others as adversaries, to antagonistic refusals that frame others as enemies (Mouffe). There appears no space within either deliberative or agonistic frameworks for approaching collective action as non-adversarial participation in the public sphere on par with individual participatory contributions to deliberation. The ethnographic examples presented in this essay illustrate examples of collective action as efforts to “hail the state” and be included in its decision-making processes. These examples demonstrate that collective action can function as amplification of earlier communicative efforts that have gone unheard or been silenced. Illustrating the failure of both models to capture the larger processes that result in collective action, I conclude by presenting an analytic approach from the perspective of a former British colony that offers deeper understandings of collective forms of action as they relate to civility not only in India, but elsewhere as well.
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Kulkarni, Vani S. "The Making and Unmaking of Local Democracy in an Indian Village." ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science 642, no. 1 (June 4, 2012): 152–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0002716212438207.

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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.
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Rai, Shirin M. "Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Redistribution: The Case of the Indian Panchayats." Hypatia 22, no. 4 (2007): 64–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1527-2001.2007.tb01320.x.

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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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PARTHASARATHY, RAMYA, VIJAYENDRA RAO, and NETHRA PALANISWAMY. "Deliberative Democracy in an Unequal World: AText-As-DataStudy of South India’s Village Assemblies." American Political Science Review 113, no. 3 (May 10, 2019): 623–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0003055419000182.

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This paper opens the “black box” of real-world deliberation by usingtext-as-datamethods on a corpus of transcripts from the constitutionally mandatedgram sabhas, or village assemblies, of rural India. Drawing on normative theories of deliberation, we identify empirical standards for “good” deliberation based on one’s ability both to speak and to be heard, and use natural language processing methods to generate these measures. We first show that, even in the rural Indian context, these assemblies are not mere “talking shops,” but rather provide opportunities for citizens to challenge their elected officials, demand transparency, and provide information about local development needs. Second, we find that women are at a disadvantage relative to men; they are less likely to speak, set the agenda, and receive a relevant response from state officials. And finally, we show that quotas for women for village presidencies improve the likelihood that female citizens are heard.
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Deliberative democracy – India"

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KODIVERI, Arpitha Upendra. "Deliberating development in India’s forests : consent, mining and the making of the deliberative state." Doctoral thesis, European University Institute, 2021. https://hdl.handle.net/1814/71875.

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Defence date: 08 July 2021
Examining Board: Professor Peter Drahos (European University Institute); Professor Joanne Scott (European University Institute); Professor B.S Chimni (Jindal Global Law School); Professor César Rodríguez-Garavito (NYU School of Law)
Deliberating Development in India’s Forests is a thesis that examines how India’s forest laws and the right to free, prior, and informed consent or consent provision of forest-dwelling communities has shaped the relationship between the state and forest-dwelling communities in extractive frontiers. The relationship between the state and forest-dwelling communities is tenuous as land in forest areas is acquired based on the Doctrine of Eminent Domain for extractive industries. Through extensive fieldwork in three mining sites in the eastern state of Odisha, this thesis offers an analysis of how the consent provision is implemented and how the relationship between the state and the forest-dwelling citizen is mediated by the pro-business bureaucracy as one of competing sovereignties. The forest-dwelling communities describe that the state operates in multiple modalities in India’s forests to enable extraction and realize its pro-business ambitions. Drawing from interviews with forest-dwelling communities and their aspirational legal interpretation of the consent provision the thesis makes an argument for the state to operate in a deliberative mode in India’s forests supported by a shared sovereignty framework and theories of deliberative and nodal governance. The thesis charts out an institutional pathway to overcome the structural imbalance experienced by forest-dwelling communities in their negotiations and dialogue with the state. This pathway can pave the way to repair the ruptured relationship between forest-dwelling communities and the Indian state and entrench the state in its deliberative modality.
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Books on the topic "Deliberative democracy – India"

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Parthasarathy, Ramya, and Vijayendra Rao. Deliberative Democracy in India. World Bank, Washington, DC, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1596/1813-9450-7995.

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Deliberative Democracy. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Joseph, Teresa, and Siby K. Joseph. Deliberative Democracy: Understanding the Indian Experience. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Joseph, Teresa, and Siby K. Joseph. Deliberative Democracy: Understanding the Indian Experience. Taylor & Francis Group, 2018.

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Singh, Ujjwal Kumar, and Anupama Roy. Election Commission of India. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199494255.001.0001.

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As the constitutional body that conducts elections, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has emerged as a trusted institution within the shared space of democracy in India. This process has, however, been a fraught one because of contestation over the ECI’s constitutional responsibility and the power of Parliament to make laws to govern electoral matters. This comprehensive monograph discusses the history of the ECI through a study of the measures it has adopted to ensure certainty of procedures in order to maintain the democratic uncertainty of electoral outcome. In this context, innovations such as the Model Code of Conduct have enhanced the rule-making powers of the ECI. Going beyond the ECI’s design and performance framework, Singh and Roy argue that changes in the nature of electoral contests and domination of political regimes have made the task of preserving electoral integrity and assuring its deliberative content a challenging one.
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Rao, Vijayendra, and Paromita Sanyal. Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies. Cambridge University Press, 2018.

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Rao, Vijayendra, and Paromita Sanyal. Oral Democracy: Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies. Cambridge University Press, 2019.

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Fischer, Frank. Participatory Environmental Governance: Civil Society, Citizen Engagement, and Participatory Policy Expertise. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199594917.003.0007.

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In search of a more practical approach to environmental democracy, the theory and practice of participatory governance are presented as an alternative that can incorporate key elements of environmental deliberative democracy but at the same time speaks more specifically to ongoing political practices. The chapter first surveys the rise of governance and its emergence in environmental politics. It then examines the claims for governance, in particular a more democratic form of governance, participatory governance. Several concrete examples from Brazil (participatory budgeting), India (people’s planning), and Nepal (community forestry) are briefly sketched, including new models of participatory expertise that have emerged with them. Grounded in real-world political struggles against hierarchy and injustice, participatory governance is seen to address the sorts of conflicts that climate change will increasingly usher in.
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Lawrence, Liang. Part VII Rights—Substance and Content, Ch.45 Free Speech and Expression. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198704898.003.0045.

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This chapter examines the place of the right to freedom of speech and expression within Indian constitutionalism. After reviewing the classical normative arguments for free speech, it considers how the domain of speech is related to colonial continuity, sedition, and public order. It discusses the scope of Article19(1)(a) of the Indian Constitution with respect to free speech, as well as the Indian Supreme Court’s successes and failures in its efforts to expand the domain of speech. It explores the democracy argument as the primary justification used by the courts in free speech cases, and its consequences. Finally, it looks at the standards for determining reasonableness, hate speech, and obscenity, and argues that the idea of a deliberative democracy must be supplemented with the concept of agonistic politics to enrich and strengthen the free speech tradition that has evolved in the past six decades.
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Book chapters on the topic "Deliberative democracy – India"

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Rajasekhar, D., and R. Manjula. "Deliberative democracy through Grama Sabha." In Handbook of Decentralised Governance and Development in India, 137–53. London: Routledge India, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429321887-13.

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Datta, Prabhat Kumar. "Deliberative Democracy in Indian Villages." In Deliberative Democracy in Asia, 54–69. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003102441-4.

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Spary, Carole, Faith Armitage, and Rachel E. Johnson. "Disrupting Deliberation? Comparing Repertoires of Parliamentary Representation in India, the UK and South Africa." In Democracy in Practice, 182–208. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/9781137361912_9.

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Prabhash, J. "‘Mediated’ Public Sphere and Deliberative Democracy in India: A Critical Reflection." In Deliberative Democracy, 165–81. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429486340-10.

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Joseph, Siby K. "Deliberative Democracy, Public Sphere and the Search for Alternative Politics in India: Gandhian Contributions." In Deliberative Democracy, 59–74. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429486340-4.

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Karan, Kavita. "E-Engaging India." In Digital Democracy, 875–99. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-1740-7.ch043.

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E-Governance, inclusive of e-democracy, e-government, and e-business, has the power to improve processes, connect citizens, and build interactions with civil societies. The infusion of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by the governments, civil society organizations, and political institutions to engage citizens, have promoted greater participation in the process of governance. E-Democracy encompasses all forms of electronic interaction between the elected government and the electorate. Examples include e-voting, e-consultation, e-representatives, e-campaigning, online deliberative polling, e-petitions, and e-referendums. India is the largest democracy in the world and a frontrunner in the use of ICTs for e-governance and e-democracy. The last few elections witnessed a surge in the use of new technologies inclusive of Internet, social networking, and mobile technologies, alongside the traditional forms of electioneering. This chapter examines the e-governance and e-democracy strategies, and the innovative new media technologies used by political parties, industrial corporations, and other organizations that have e-engaged the citizens.
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Karan, Kavita. "E-Engaging India." In Active Citizen Participation in E-Government, 334–58. IGI Global, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-4666-0116-1.ch017.

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E-Governance, inclusive of e-democracy, e-government, and e-business, has the power to improve processes, connect citizens, and build interactions with civil societies. The infusion of Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) by the governments, civil society organizations, and political institutions to engage citizens, have promoted greater participation in the process of governance. E-Democracy encompasses all forms of electronic interaction between the elected government and the electorate. Examples include e-voting, e-consultation, e-representatives, e-campaigning, online deliberative polling, e-petitions, and e-referendums. India is the largest democracy in the world and a frontrunner in the use of ICTs for e-governance and e-democracy. The last few elections witnessed a surge in the use of new technologies inclusive of Internet, social networking, and mobile technologies, alongside the traditional forms of electioneering. This chapter examines the e-governance and e-democracy strategies, and the innovative new media technologies used by political parties, industrial corporations, and other organizations that have e-engaged the citizens.
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Moolakkattu, John S., and Jos Chathukulam. "Mainstream and Indian Perspectives on Decentralization, Participation and Democracy." In Deliberative Democracy, 99–127. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429486340-7.

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Ibrahim, K. M. Sajad. "Indian Democracy in a Changing World: A Case of Civil Society Intervention." In Deliberative Democracy, 75–88. Routledge, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429486340-5.

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Raman, Veena V. "Habermas, Networks and Virtual Public Spheres." In Information Communication Technologies and the Virtual Public Sphere, 72–91. IGI Global, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-60960-159-1.ch004.

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This chapter examines Habermas’ conceptualization of the public sphere as it applies to a non-Western context, in Bangalore City, India. It provides examples of how Information and Communication Technologies are being used to empower ordinary citizens to participate in local governance, though deep digital divides persist. The chapter highlights problematic aspects of using technologies to promote better governance in the face of pervasive asymmetries in access to resources, power to leverage networks, and in levels of civic competencies. Drawing on the capabilities approach, it argues that there is need for a blended model of deliberative ‘e-democracy’ that does not privilege online venues and interactions, but employs technologies in strategic combinations with existing civic networks to improve governance in developing countries.
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