The status of ideational explanations in political science has been strengthened by the
argument that institutionalized ideas structure actors' identification of their interests as well …

Owing to the tendency of discursive institutionalists to conflate the notion that 'ideas
matter'for policy-making with the 'power of ideas', little has been done to explicitly theorize …

Seeking to amend historical institutionalism, this article draws on the political science
literature on ideas and the sociological literature on framing to discuss three ways in which …

During the past three decades, the “new institutionalism” has become the main
methodological battleground among political scientists. This is because political scientists …

All three of the traditionally recognized new institutionalisms–rational choice, historical, and
sociological–have increasingly sought to 'endogenize'change, which has often meant a turn …

A wave of recent scholarship, embracing both rational choice and cultural approaches,
highlights the importance of collective ideas in explaining politics. What this work has not …

After years of neglect, ideational variables have moved to the forefront of the political
science agenda, yet ideational explanations still meet with skepticism in many quarters …

'Discursive institutionalism'gives a name to the very rich and diverse set of ways of
explaining political and social reality that are focused on the substantive content of ideas …

In the years since P eter H all's seminal 1993 article “P olicy P aradigms, S ocial L earning
and the S tate” appeared, the ideational research agenda has expanded enormously, to the …

This article provides a new framework for analysing the processes through which policy
paradigms shift. It firstly argues that 'paradigm shift'is useful as a metaphorical …