When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India: Series Num

When Ideas Matter\nby Bilal A. Baloch\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Bilal A. Baloch\nTitle: When Ideas Matter\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Political structures: democracy\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2021\nISBN-13: 9781316519837\nISBN-10: 131651983X\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nComparativist scholarship conventionally gives unbridled primacy to external, material interestschiefly votes and rentsas 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 o.