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Deliberative Democracy and the Politics of Redistribution: The Case of the Indian Panchayats
- Hypatia
- Indiana University Press
- Volume 22, Number 4, Fall 2007
- pp. 64-80
- Article
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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.