Peter Levine

Vijayendra Rao

Sanford Schram

Karol Edward Sołtan

Filippo Sabetti

Paul Aligica

Tina Nabatchi

Greg Munno

Ghazala Mansuri

Harry Boyte

Blase Scarnati

Philip Nyden

Approaches to the Emerging Field

Civic Studies

Patrick Heller

Deliberation is the process by which a group of people, each with equal voice, can - via a process of discussion and debate - reach an agreement. Deliberation and Development attempts to do two things. First, it rethinks the role of deliberation in development and shows that it has potential well beyond a narrow focus on participatory projects. Deliberation, if properly instituted, has the potential to have a transformative effect on many if not all aspects of development, and especially in addressing problems of collective action, coordination, and entrenched inequality. This has broad implications both at the global and local level. Second, the book demonstrates that taking deliberation seriously calls for a different approach to both research and policy design and requires a much greater emphasis on the processes by which decisions are made, rather than an exclusive focus on the outcomes. Deliberation and Development contributes to a broader literature to understand the role of communicative processes in development.

Rethinking the Role of Voice and Collective Action in Unequal Societies

Deliberation and Development

Michael Walton

Led by Amartya Sen, Mary Douglas, and Arjun Appadurai, the distinguished anthropologists and economists in this book forcefully argue that culture is central to development, and present a framework for incorporating culture into development discourse. For further information on the book and related essays, please visit www.cultureandpublicaction.org.

Culture and Public Action

Francis Bloch

Some aspects of violent behavior are linked to economic incentives. In India, domestic violence is used as a bargaining instrument, to extract larger dowries from a wife's family after the marriage has taken place.

A Case Study of Dowry Violence in Rural India

Terror as a Bargaining Instrument

Paromita Sanyal

Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.

Deliberation in Indian Village Assemblies

Oral Democracy

Vijayendra Rao

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