世界银行：2024二十五万个民主政体：印度乡村政府述评（英文版）

Thirty-two years ago, in April 1992, the 73rd amendment to the Indian Constitutionwas passed. It mandated that all of India's approximately one million villages bepart of a system of local government, with regularly scheduled elections for villagecouneils and presidencies, deliberative spaces where citizens could make collectivedecisions, and political reservations for women and disadvantaged castes. Thisresulted in the creation of more than 250,000 (2.5 lakh) local democracies' with bot