Gram Panchayats (Village Government ) in India:

Vijayendra Rao and Paromita Sanyal, Dignity Through Discourse: Poverty and the Culture of Deliberation in Indian Village Democracies," mimeo, April 2009 (Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science - forthcoming)- Video of Talk at the Ash Center for Democracy at Harvard.

Radu Ban, Monica Das Gupta, and Vijayendra Rao, The Political Economy of Village Sanitation in South India, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 4082, December 2008 (Journal of Development Studies- forthcoming)

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, "Is Deliberation Equitable? Evidence from Transcripts of Village Meetings in Rural India," mimeo, Development Research Group, The World Bank. December 2008

Vijayendra Rao and Radu Ban, The Political Construction of Caste in South India, mimeo, August 2007

Radu Ban and Vijayendra Rao, Tokenism Versus Agency: The Impact of Women's Reservations on Panchayats in South India, Economic Development and Cultural Change, April 2008

Ravi Kanbur, Gopal Kadekodi, Vijayendra Rao, "Governance and the Karnataka Model of Development" Economic and Political Weekly, February 24, 2007 Pp: 649-652

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao, "The Political Economy of Gram Panchayats in Karnataka," Economic and Political Weekly, February 24, 2007 Pp: 661-666

Vijayendra Rao, "Symbolic Public Goods and the Coordination of Collective Action: A Comparison of Local Development in India and Indonesia," Chapter 10 in Pranab Bardhan and Isha Ray (edited) The Contested Commons: Conversations Between Economists and Anthropologists, Blackwell Publishing Ltd, 2008

Saumitra Jha, Vijayendra Rao and Michael Woolcock, "Governance in the Gullies: Democratic Responsiveness and Leadership in Delhi's Slums," World Development, (forthcoming), 2006

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande and Vijayendra Rao, "Just Rewards: Local Politics and Public Resource Allocation in South India," mimeo, October 2007

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande, and Vijayendra Rao, "Partcipatory Democracy in Action: Survey Evidence from Rural India," Journal of the European Economic Association, 2005

Tim Besley, Rohini Pande, Lupin Rahman and Vijayendra Rao, "The Politics of Public Good Provision: Evidence From Indian Local Governments," Journal of the European Economic Association, April-May 2004