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The role of ideas in political analysis : a portrait of contemporary debates / edited by Andreas Gofas and Colin Hay.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; 19.
- Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; 19
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political science.
- Idea (Philosophy).
- Physical Description:
- xii, 210 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Routledge, 2010.
- Summary:
- Despite the proliferation of ideational accounts in the last decade or so, the debate over the role of ideas remains caught up in a series of disputes over the ontological foundations, epistemological status and practical pay-off of the (re)turn to ideational explanations. It is thus unsurprising that there is still little clarity about just What an ideational approach is and what it would take to establish the kind-of fully fledged ideational research programme many seem to assume has already been developed.
- The contributors to this volume address these dilemmas in diverse but engagingly complementary ways. They argue that what plagues most attempts to accord ideas an explanatory role is the persistence of the perennial dualisms in political analysis. In aspiring to eschew the current vogue for dualistic polemic, the present volume reveals elements of dualistic thinking in the ideational turn and assesses the impact of the persistence of these perennial dualisms in the attempt to accord ideas an explanatory role. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- The ideational turn and the persistence of perennial dualities / Andreas Gofas and Colin Hay
- Varieties of ideational explanations / Andreas Gofas and Colin Hay
- Ideational analysis, political change and immanent causality / Lars Tønder
- Everyday legitimacy and institutional change / Leonard Seabrooke
- Narratives of neoliberalism : the role of everyday media practices and the reproduction of dominant ideas / David Hudson and Mary Martin
- Beyond the rationalist bias : on the ideational construction of risk / Oliver Kessler
- Examining ideas empirically : the political discourse of globalization in Ireland / Nicola Jo-Anne Smith.
- Notes:
- "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.
- Published in association with the Economic & Social Research Council and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415391566
- 0415391563
- 9780203087022
- 020308702X
- OCLC:
- 289095983
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