Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Beland, Daniel; Cox, Robert Henry

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Produktbeschreibung

Writing about ideas, John Maynard Keynes noted that they are "more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." One would expect, therefore, that political science--a discipline that focuses specifically on the nature of power--would have a healthy respect for the role of ideas. However, for a variety of reasons--not least of which is the influence of rational choice theory, which presumes that individuals are self-maximizing rational actors--this is not the case, and the literature on the topic is fairly thin. As the stellar cast of contributors to this volume show, ideas are in fact powerful shapers of political and social life. In Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research, Daniel B?land and Robert Henry Cox have gathered leading scholars from a variety of subdisciplines in political science and sociology to provide a general overview of the theoretical, empirical, and methodological issues raised by social science research on ideas and politics. Throughout, they hone in on three central questions. What is the theoretical basis for studying ideas in politics? What are the best methods? What sort of empirical puzzles can be solved by examining ideas and related phenomena such as discourse, policy paradigms, and framing processes? In sum, this is a state-of-the-art academic work on both the role of ideas in politics and the analytical utility that derives from studying them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199813377
• Artikelnr.: 38131767

Autorenporträt

Daniel Béland is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Saskatchewan. Robert Henry Cox is Director and Associate Professor at the School of International and Area Studies in the University of Oklahoma.

Inhaltsangabe

* About the Contributors
* Preface
* Introduction: Ideas and Politics, Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox
* PART I THEORY
* 1.: The Varied Roles of Ideas in Politics: From "Whether" to "How",
Jal Mehta
* 2.: Reconciling Ideas and Institutions Through Discursive
Institutionalism, Vivien A. Schmidt
* 3.: Ideas and the Construction of Interests, Colin Hay
* 4.: Ideas, Uncertainty and Evolution, Mark Blyth
* PART II ANALYSIS
* 5.: Ideology, History and Politics, Sheri Berman
* 6.: Ideas, Position, and Supranationality, Craig Parsons
* 7.: Ideas, Policy Change and the Welfare State, Daniel Wincott
* 8.: Knowledge Regimes and Comparative Political Economy, John
Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen
* 9.: Ideas, Expertise and Think Tanks, Andrew Rich
* 10.: Ideas and Institutions in Race Politics, Robert C. Lieberman
* Bibliography
* Index

Rezensionen

[O]ffers an overview of some of the best research being done in the field. Martin B. Carstensen, Political Studies Review