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Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research (Paperback, New)
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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 Beland 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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