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 BalochA 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 HighlightsWhat 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 leadershipIs it more important to foster a diversity of ideas or support the best ideas? Key LinksWhen Ideas Matter: Democracy and Corruption in India by Bilal BalochFollow Bilal Baloch on Twitter @bilalabalochLearn more about his company EnquireDemocracy Paradox PodcastChristophe Jaffrelot on Narendra Modi and Hindu NationalismKajri Jain Believes Democracy Unfolds through the AestheticMore Episodes from the PodcastMore InformationDemocracy GroupApes of the State created all MusicEmail the show at [email protected] on Twitter @DemParadox100 Books on DemocracySupport the show