Karnataka Panchayat Elections 1995: Process, Issues and Membership Profile critically examines the important issues that influenced the voting pattern in the 1993 and 1995 panchayat elections in Karnataka and the level of popular participation in the Gram, Taluk and Zilla panchayats. Another major theme of this book is the new leadership emerging in the panchyats since 1987, when the state saw the dawn of a new era of local governance. This study is based on extensive field investigations in all the districts of Karnataka. The research conducted by the Institute of social Sciences research team covers a wide range of samples from among the rural population and panchayat elected representatives. This publication is a valuable source book for the panchayat elected representatives, functionaries, researchers as well as for the panchayati raj training programmses all over the countr