| Description |
1 online resource (xxiii, 325 pages) |
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South Asia in the social sciences |
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South Asia in the social sciences.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2021) |
| Subject |
Political planning -- India -- Decision making
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Political participation -- India
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Political culture -- India
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Democracy -- India
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Political corruption -- India
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / General.
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Democracy
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Political corruption
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Political culture
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Political participation
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Political planning -- Decision making
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Politics and government
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| SUBJECT |
India -- Politics and government -- 1947- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85064944
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| Subject |
India
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021017245 |
| ISBN |
9781009019316 |
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1009019317 |
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