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When ideas matter : democracy and corruption in India / Bilal A. Baloch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baloch, Bilal A. (Bilal Ali), 1985- author.
- Series:
- South Asia in the social sciences ; 16.
- South Asia in the social sciences
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political planning--India--Decision making.
- Political planning.
- Political corruption--India.
- Political corruption.
- Democracy--India.
- Democracy.
- Political culture--India.
- Political culture.
- Political participation--India.
- Political participation.
- India--Politics and government--1947-.
- India.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxiii, 325 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- Summary:
- Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping political behaviour. These logics tend to explicate elite decision-making around elections and pork barrel politics but fall short in explaining political conduct during credibility crises, such as democratic governments facing anti-corruption movements. In these instances, Baloch shows, elite ideas, for example concepts of the nation or technical diagnoses of socioeconomic development, dominate policymaking. Scholars leverage these arguments in the fields of international relations, American politics, and the political economy of development. But an account of ideas activating or constraining executive action in developing democracies, where material pressures are high, is found wanting. Resting on fresh archival research and over 120 original elite interviews, When Ideas Matter traces where ideas come from, how they are chosen, and when they are most salient for explaining political behaviour in India and similar contexts.
- Contents:
- A constructivist approach to political behavior in India
- The emergency and the Jayaprakash Narayan Movement
- India under Gandhi : populism and partisans
- Checks and balances and the India against corruption movement
- United progressive alliance : technocrats and transformations
- The politics of ideas in India and developing democracies.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 Jun 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-009-03246-1
- 1-009-01931-7
- OCLC:
- 1256588433
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