Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6408523 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan C Kamkhaji (0000-0002-1358-926X, Politecnico, Milan, Italy), Claudio M Radaelli (0000-0001-5056-5585, European University Institute, Florence, Italy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 841-862 |
| Publication date | 2022-06-07 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2021.1959751 |
| OpenAlex | W3194666420 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 48 |
Ideational explanations of policy change are popular in the fields of political economy, comparative politics and policy analysis. And yet, to make the case for ideational explanations, we must make further progress on the nature of ideas, where they come from, what they consist of, and how they change over time. We highlight four critical building sites concerning the definitional aspects of ideational explanations, micro-foundations, mechanisms and the difference between ideational and cognitive analysis. We make recommendations on how to carry out work in the building sites and describe the range of suggestions and ways forward found in the articles of this Symposium. We also suggest cross-fertilising political science with the findings of neighbouring disciplines that have developed empirically robust models of ideation and cognition
Cognition · Economics · Epistemology · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Social science · Sociology · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Policy Transfer and Learning · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Policy change and the persuasive potential of polysemic ideas
The Polysemy of Skills
Forming a supranational boundary-spanning policy regime – European intersectoral coordination in education and employment
Measuring Policy Learning
When does policy learning lead to policy change? Exploring the causal chain from learning to change
The idea of policy coherence
What needs to be (un)ambiguous to construct a coalition for policy change? Evidence from South Korea’s “childcare publicness” reforms
Ideational robustness in turbulent times
Balancing or prioritising for sustainable development? Perceptions of sustainability integration among professionals
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy
Ideational agenda-setting leadership
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration
Policy entrepreneurs and problem definition
From Market Liberalism to Public Intervention
New pathways to paradigm change in public policy
Consensus under strain
Theories of the policy process
Making sense of gold and governance
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change
Occupy the semantic space! Opening up the language of better regulation
How to ‘measure’ ideas. Introducing the method of cognitive mapping to the domain of ideational policy studies
Moving on to not fall behind? Technological sovereignty and the ‘geo-dirigiste’ turn in EU industrial policy
The Rise of the Conservative Legal Movement
The Road from Mont Pèlerin
How to Map Arguments in Political Science
Ruling Ideas
The IMF and the Politics of Austerity in the Wake of the Global Financial Crisis
Understanding Public Policy
The Euro and the Battle of Ideas
The Oxford Handbook of the History of Political Philosophy
Models of man, social and rational
Austerity
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
Resilient Liberalism in Europe's Political Economy
The National Origins of Policy Ideas
How Ideas and Institutions Shape the Politics of Public Policy
Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research
Une French touch dans l'analyse des politiques publiques ?
The Political Power of Economic Ideas
Process Tracing
How ideas matter in public policy
Exploring the Keynesian–Ordoliberal Divide. Flexibility and Convergence in French and German Leaders’ Economic Ideas During the Euro-Crisis
National liberalisms in a neoliberal age
In search of the ideational foundations of EU fiscal governance
Theories of policy change and variation reconsidered
How Europe’s Political Leaders Made Sense of the Euro Crisis
When Is It Rational to Learn the Wrong Lessons? Technocratic Authority, Social Learning, and Euro Fragility
Crisis, learning and policy change in the European Union
Contested governance
Making sense of gold and governance
Learning heuristics, issue salience and polarization in the policy process
Crisis, uncertainty and urgency
Unpacking ambiguity in ideational change
The Idea of Austerity in British Politics, 2003–2013
The Role of Ideas in Policy and Institutional Change
Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework
Ideas as coalition magnets
Consensus, Dissensus, and Economic Ideas
Austerity versus Stimulus? Understanding Fiscal Policy Change at the International Monetary Fund Since the Great Recession
Ideational Theorizing in the Social Sciences since “PolicyParadigms,SocialLearning, and theState
Keeping Ideas in their Place
Policy Paradigms, Social Learning, and the State
Discursive Institutionalism
Esquisse d'une théorie du changement dans l'action publique
L'analyse cognitive des politiques publiques
Institutional analysis and the role of ideas in political economy
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 24 |