This book examines how the International Monetary Fund engages in the politics of ideas to shape domestic institutional change. Drawing on case studies from post-Soviet Central Asia, André Broome explains that how governments interpret their policy options mediates the IMF's influence over economic reform during periods of crisis and uncertainty.

ANDRÉ BROOME is Lecturer in International Political Economy in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, University of Birmingham, UK. He has published journal articles on the changing role of the International Monetary Fund as well as on the comparative politics of monetary and taxation reform.