During the last 30 years, all European Union member states have reformed their pension
systems. In view of ongoing and intensifying population aging, efforts have aimed at …

This Element provides a critical review of existing literature on the role of ideas and
institutions in the politics of public policy with the aim of contributing to the study of the …

Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go
local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

One of the most common ways by which ideas influence policy outcomes is by facilitating the
construction of a political coalition. The ideas that have this capacity we call coalition …

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The postcommunist countries were amongst the most fervent and committed adopters of
neoliberal economic reforms. Not only did they manage to overcome the anticipated …

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 …

The worldwide spread of neoliberalism has transformed economies, polities, and societies
everywhere. In conventional accounts, American and Western European economists, such …

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 …