When ideas matter: democracy and corruption in India

by Baloch, Bilal A.

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Full title :When ideas matter : democracy and corruption in India / Bilal A. Baloch.

Summary

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.

"How do ideas shape government decision-making? Comparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interests-chiefly votes and rents-as proximately shaping political behavior. 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 behavior in India and similar contexts."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2021

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge, United Kingdom
Language:eng
Publication Date:2021

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Tabellen.

Literaturangaben.

Literaturhinweise Seite 279-304.

Register Seite 305-325.

The Physical Object

Description:xxiii, 325 Seiten

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316519837, 131651983X
oclc:on1257527191
LC Classification:JQ229.P64
Dewey Decimal:320.60954

Subjects

Corruption politique -- Inde democracy Democracy -- India Demokratie Inde -- Politique et gouvernement -- 19… India India -- Politics and government -- 194… Indien Korruption Participation politique -- Inde Political corruption Political corruption -- India Political culture Political culture -- India Political participation Political participation -- India Political planning -- Decision making Political planning -- Decision making. … POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General Politics and government