Governance From Below: Can Children Lead The Way? By John Buck and Alphonse Mekolo
Articles, studies:
Ayalkoottam in Kumarakom as Social Capital. A Study of Ayalkoottam in Participatory Planning and Grass Roots Level Democracy in Kuamarakom Panchayat and Its Scope of Replication. P.G. Padmanabhan. Kerala Research Programme on Local Level Development Centre for Development Studies Thiruvananthapuram (read as pdf).