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1st Edition

Ideas, Political Power, and Public Policy

Edited By Daniel Beland, Martin B. Carstensen, Leonard Seabrooke Copyright 2017
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages
by Routledge
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Through the last couple of decades, scholars on both sides of the Atlantic have increasingly emphasized the importance of political ideas in understanding processes of change and stability in politics and public policy. Yet, surprisingly, relatively little has been done to more clearly and stringently conceptualize the relationship between political power and the role of ideas in public policy... Read more

1. Ideas, political power and public policy
Daniel Béland, Martin B. Carstensen and Leonard Seabrooke

2. Power through, over and in ideas: conceptualizing ideational power in discursive institutionalism
Martin B. Carstensen and Vivien A. Schmidt

3. The power of economic ideas – through, over and in – political time: the construction, conversion and crisis of the neoliberal order in the US and UK
Wesley Widmaier

4. Powering ideas through expertise: professionals in global tax battles
Leonard Seabrooke and Duncan Wigan

5. Powerful rules governing the euro: the perverse logic of German ideas
Matthias Matthijs

6. The Bocconi boys go to Brussels: Italian economic ideas, professional networks and European austerity
Oddný Helgadóttir

7. Studying macroeconomic indicators as powerful ideas
Daniel Mügge

8. Ideas as coalition magnets: coalition building, policy entrepreneurs, and power relations
Daniel Béland and Robert Henry Cox

9. Ideas and power: four intersections and how to show them
Craig Parsons

10. The New Ideas Scholarship in the Mirror of Historical Institutionalism: A Case of Old Whines in New Bottles?
Mark Blyth

Biography

Daniel Béland holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan).

Martin B. Carstensen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

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