A massive experiment in the State of Kerala, India, points the way to a new political order in terms of global governance from below, to ensure empowerment of women in a wide-reaching and sustainable manner… The experiment that began with neighbourhood groups of poor women gradually opened the way to a new system of citizens’ participation as promulgated through the Kerala Institute of Local Administration, integrating not just women and the poor, but every citizen…. explained as neighbourhood-based sociocracy.