The role of ideas in political analysis : a portrait of contemporary debates / / edited by Andreas Gofas and Colin Hay

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910781078903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-94650-0; 1-136-94651-9; 1-282-58605-X; 9786612586057; 0-203-08702-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (225 p.)
• Collana: Routledge/Warwick studies in globalisation ; ; 19
• Altri autori (Persone): GofasAndreas; HayColin <1968->
• Disciplina: 320; 320.01
• Soggetti: Political science; Idea (Philosophy)
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada"--T.p. verso.; Published in association with the Economic and Social Research Council and the Centre for the Study of Globalisation and Regionalisation.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 The ideational turn and the persistence of perennial dualisms; Part I Reflections on the ideational turn; 2 Varieties of ideational explanation; 3 Ideational analysis, political change and immanent causality; 4 Everyday legitimacy and institutional change; Part II Ideas, discourses and policy analysis; 5 Narratives of neoliberalism: The role of everyday media practices and the reproduction of dominant ideas; 6 Beyond the rationalist bias?: On the ideational construction of risk; 7 Examining ideas empirically: The political discourse of globalisation in IrelandPart III Responses; 8 Some reflections on ideas, ontology and where we go next; 9 On setting and upsetting agendas: Blyth on Gofas and Hay, Tønder, and Seabrooke; 10 On putting ideas into perspective: Schmidt on Kessler, Martin and Hudson, and Smith; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 sort of an approach an ideational approach is and about what it would take to establish the kind of fully-fledged ideational research programme many seem to assume has already been developed. The contributors in this volume address th