%0 Generic
%A Fürstenberg, Kai Fabian
%C Heidelberg, Germany
%D 2015
%F heidok:18464
%R 10.11588/heidok.00018464
%T Panchayati Raj in India. The Evolution between 1947 and 1992
%U https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/18464/
%X The main argument of my thesis is that the institutional development of Panchayati Raj between 1947 and 1992 can be analysed as an evolutionary process in the Darwinian sense. I base this on the conjecture that Evolutionary Institutionalism (EI) is the appropriate theoretical approach to do this. The argument is investigated based on two research questions: Can I arrive at the outcome of 1992 if I trace the developments as an institutional evolution from an EI perspective? Is the outcome inevitable?