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Review: "Any More Bright Ideas?" The Ideational Turn of Comparative Political EconomyReviewed Works: Ideas and Foreign Policy: Beliefs, Institutions and Political Change by Judith Goldstein, Robert Keohane; Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Argentina and Brazil by Kathryn Sikkink
Review by: Mark M. Blyth
Comparative Politics
Vol. 29, No. 2 (Jan., 1997)
, pp. 229-250 (22 pages)
Published By: Comparative Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Political Science, City University of New York
//doi.org/10.2307/422082
//www.jstor.org/stable/422082
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Abstract
The renewed interest in ideas as an explanatory category in political economy, particularly among rationalist and historical institutionalists, is flawed. This turn to ideas is theoretically degenerate; it treats ideas as desiderata, catch-all concepts to explain variance, rather than subjects in their own right. The two schools ask what stabilizes and what causes change, not what ideas are and what they do. The ideational turn taken by both rationalist and historical institutionalists is best understood as an ad hoc solution to the inherent weaknesses of their research programs.
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Comparative Politics is an international journal that publishes scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and behavior. It was founded in 1968 to further the development of comparative political theory and the application of comparative theoretical analysis to the empirical investigation of political issues. Comparative Politics communicates new ideas and research findings to social scientists, scholars, and students. It is indispensable to experts in research organizations, foundations, consulates, and embassies throughout the world. Comparative Politics is sponsored, edited, and published by the Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York. Opinions, findings, or conclusions expressed in the journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or the City University of New York. Comparative Politics is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.
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The Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York, located in the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York at 365 Fifth Avenue in New York, consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the tasks of acquiring, expanding, and transmitting reliable knowledge about political phenomena. Its essential function is to educate professional political scientists capable of independent research and qualified for careers in academic institutions, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector. Although the Ph.D. Program in Political Science features a diversity of approaches, all students are expected both to specialize and to develop an understanding of the discipline as a whole. Comparative Politics was founded by the Political Science Program of the City University of New York in 1968 to further its scholarly mission by promoting research in the field of comparative politics and is an integral part of its contribution to the discipline of political science.
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Review: War and Comparative PoliticsReviewed Works: Confronting the Costs of War: Military Power, State, and Society in Egypt and Israel by Michael N. Barnett; Crisis and Leviathan: Critical Episodes in the Growth of American Government by Robert Higgs; Behind the Lines: Gender and the Two World Wars by Margaret Randolph Higonnet, Jane Jenson, Sonya Michel, Margaret Collins Weitz; Total War and Social Change by Arthur Marwick; War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics by Bruce D. Porter; Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States by Theda Skocpol; Coercion, Capital, and European States, AD 990-1990 by Charles Tilly
Review by: Gregory J. Kasza
Comparative Politics
Vol. 28, No. 3 (Apr., 1996)
, pp. 355-373 (19 pages)
Published By: Comparative Politics, Ph.D. Programs in Political Science, City University of New York
//doi.org/10.2307/422211
//www.jstor.org/stable/422211
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War's effects on domestic politics have received scant attention in comparative political theory. Most comparativists dismiss wars as crises that disrupt the regular patterns of politics and thus defy theoretical explanation. This article reviews recent attempts to bring war into the mainstream of comparative research. It reviews studies that analyze war as an abnormal event, war preparations, and war as a constant state function. It suggests "war development" as a label for this budding field of research and highlights some promising avenues in incorporating war into theories of comparative politics.
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Comparative Politics is an international journal that publishes scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and behavior. It was founded in 1968 to further the development of comparative political theory and the application of comparative theoretical analysis to the empirical investigation of political issues. Comparative Politics communicates new ideas and research findings to social scientists, scholars, and students. It is indispensable to experts in research organizations, foundations, consulates, and embassies throughout the world. Comparative Politics is sponsored, edited, and published by the Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York. Opinions, findings, or conclusions expressed in the journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editors or the City University of New York. Comparative Politics is published quarterly in January, April, July, and October.
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The Ph.D. Program in Political Science of the City University of New York, located in the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York at 365 Fifth Avenue in New York, consists of a community of scholars dedicated to the tasks of acquiring, expanding, and transmitting reliable knowledge about political phenomena. Its essential function is to educate professional political scientists capable of independent research and qualified for careers in academic institutions, government agencies, nonprofit organizations, and the private sector. Although the Ph.D. Program in Political Science features a diversity of approaches, all students are expected both to specialize and to develop an understanding of the discipline as a whole. Comparative Politics was founded by the Political Science Program of the City University of New York in 1968 to further its scholarly mission by promoting research in the field of comparative politics and is an integral part of its contribution to the discipline of political science.
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