Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research

Name: Ideas and Politics in Social Science Research
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ISBN: 9780199736874

ISBN-10: 0199736871

ISBN-13: 9780199736874

Edition: 2010

Authors: Daniel Beland, Robert Henry Cox

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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…

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List price: $40.49
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 1/13/2011
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 9.00" wide x 6.00" long x 0.64" tall
Weight: 0.968