Bilal Baloch on Indira Gandhi, India's Emergency, and the Importance of Ideas in Politics

We have core ideas that form a part of our worldview, but those core ideas are not fixed in the way in which we talk about rationality and interest in that they can evolve. And we have to, when we think about human behavior, political behavior, we have to give serious attention to those ideas and go beyond just fixed material interests.

Bilal Baloch

A full transcript is available at www.democracyparadox.com or a short review of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India here.

Bilal Baloch is the Co-Founder and COO of Enquire, formerly GlobalWonks. He is also a non-resident visiting scholar at the Center for the Advanced Study of India at the University of Pennsylvania and the author of When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India.

Key Highlights

• What was the Jayaprakash Narayanan Movement? • Why did the State of Emergency happen in India? • How do ideas influence governance? • The differences between technocratic and political leadership • Is it more important to foster a diversity of ideas or support the best ideas?

Key Links

When Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India by Bilal Baloch

Follow Bilal Baloch on Twitter @bilalabaloch

Learn more about his company Enquire

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Lydbog: 25. januar 2022