The Role of Ideas in Political Analysis: A Portrait of Contemporary Debates (Routledge Studies in Globalisation)

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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 these dilemmas in diverse but engagingly complementary ways. They argue that what plagues most attempts to accord ideas an explanatory role is the persistence of the perennial dualities in political analysis. In aspiring to eschew the current vogue for dualistic polemic, the present volume reveals elements of dualistic thinking in the ideational turn and assesses the impact of the persistence of these perennial dualisms in the attempt to accord ideas an explanatory role.
Copyright:
2010

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9781136946509
Related ISBNs:
9780203087022, 9780415662406, 9780415662406, 9780415391566, 9780415391566
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Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
Andreas Gofas and Colin Hay for selection and editorial matter
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Language:
English
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Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Philosophy, Politics and Government
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Edited by:
Andreas Gofas
Edited by:
Colin Hay

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