The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis: A Portrait of Contemporary Debates

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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 Ireland Part 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