When Ideas Matter
Baloch, Bilal A.
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, f...
