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Democracy and Development: Decentralized Planning in Kerala (in Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance, ed. Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright)

T. M. Thomas Isaac; Patrick Heller · Verso (Real Utopias Project) · 2003

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Book
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T. M. Thomas Isaac; Patrick Heller
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2026-09-01
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Book chapter; the volume grew out of a 2001 Politics & Society special issue edited by Fung and Wright. URL is the Internet Archive record of the volume (lending copy); not read directly.

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EstablishedIn a 'big bang' approach, Kerala's People's Campaign devolved 35 to 40 per cent of state plan expenditure to panchayats and municipalities as untied funds, with priorities set in ward assemblies (grama sabhas) and projects designed by task forces of elected officials, local officials and activists.