When Ideas Matter
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When Ideas Matter

Democracy and Corruption in India

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When Ideas Matter

Democracy and Corruption in India

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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.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Year
2021
ISBN
9781009032469
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Global Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. When Ideas Matter
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Tables
  8. Preface
  9. Acknowledgments
  10. Abbreviations
  11. 1 Introduction
  12. 2 A Constructivist Approach to Political Behavior in India
  13. 3 The Emergency and the Jayaprakash Narayan Movement
  14. 4 India under Gandhi: Populism and Partisans
  15. 5 Checks and Balances and the India Against Corruption Movement
  16. 6 United Progressive Alliance: Technocrats and Transformations
  17. 7 The Politics of Ideas in India and Developing Democracies
  18. Appendices
  19. Bibliography
  20. Index