The Anatomy of Failure: An Ethnography of a Randomized Trial to Deepen Democracy in Rural India
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- Ananthpur, Kripa & Malik, Kabir & Rao, Vijayendra, 2014. "The anatomy of failure : an ethnography of a randomized trial to deepen democracy in rural India," Policy Research Working Paper Series 6958, The World Bank.
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citizen engagement; mixed-methods; impact evaluations; India; Gram Panchayats; deliberative democracy;Statistics
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