| Summary: | This book describes and analyses a series of citizen-led campaigns for strengthening institutions of local self-governance in India. It argues that such civil society campaigns themselves can be made a part of governance at the local level and suggests ways in which democratic deliberation and dialogic practices can actually take place in the field.
As the campaigns under study moved from district to district, mostly across the vast expanse of rural India, through its street plays, posters, pamphlets, candidatevoter dialogues, rehearsals of voting procedures, setting up of information booths and participatory workshops for newly-elected representatives, a new dialogical experiment was being born and shaped. The book uses a series of field notes from campaign animators and personal interviews of some who have participated in or been affected by the citizen-led campaigns to construct the campaign story. It locates this within the large theoretical canvas of deepening democracy which is a vibrant contemporary global discourse that is assuming significance in the wake of citizen apathy across the world. --Book Jacket.
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