Role Of Ideas In Political Analysis: A Portrait of Contemporary Debates (Routledge Studies in Globalisation) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415662400 ISBN 13: 9780415662406

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

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.

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About the Author

Andreas Gofas is a Lecturer in International Relations at Panteion University in Athens, Greece.

Colin Hay is Professor of Political Analysis at the University of Sheffield.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415662400
• ISBN 13: 9780415662406
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224
• Editor: Gofas Andreas