When Ideas Matter

ISBN-13: 9781009413022 / Miękka / 2023 / 351 str.

Bilal A. (University of Pennsylvania) Baloch

Opis

A study of ideas, their substance, origins and salience, in government decision-making during credibility crises in India and developing democracies.

Recenzje

'Bilal Baloch makes a powerful constructivist case for the importance of ideas in explaining key outcomes and crises in post-independence Indian history, from the secular nationalist era of the 1970s, to the Hindu Nationalist present.' Steven Wilkinson, Yale University, author of Votes and Violence: Electoral Competition and Ethnic Riots in India

Spis treści

Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. A constructivist approach to political behavior in India; 3. The Emergency and the Jayaprakash Narayan Movement; 4. India under Gandhi: Populism and partisans; 5. Checks and balances and the India against Corruption Movement; 6. United Progressive Alliance: Technocrats and transformations; 7. The politics of ideas in India and developing democracies; Appendices; References; Index.