Daniel Béland is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Saskatchewan. Robert Henry Cox is Director and Associate Professor at the School of International and Area Studies in the University of Oklahoma.

This superb collection brings together, for the first time, the main contributors to the scholarship on the role of ideas in political life. A tight focus on ideas as causal beliefs within policy arenas joins up with a wide view across numerous subfields of political science and sociology to create a uniquely coherent and relevant volume that gracefully bridges multiple literatures. It will be important reading for those seeking to understand the many and vital ways in which ideas shape our politics.

• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: IDEAS AND POLITICS, DANIEL BELAND AND ROBERT HENRY COX; PART I THEORY; PART II ANALYSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Daniel Béland is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Saskatchewan. Robert Henry Cox is Director and Associate Professor at the School of International and Area Studies in the University of Oklahoma.

This superb collection brings together, for the first time, the main contributors to the scholarship on the role of ideas in political life. A tight focus on ideas as causal beliefs within policy arenas joins up with a wide view across numerous subfields of political science and sociology to create a uniquely coherent and relevant volume that gracefully bridges multiple literatures. It will be important reading for those seeking to understand the many and vital ways in which ideas shape our politics.

• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: IDEAS AND POLITICS, DANIEL BELAND AND ROBERT HENRY COX; PART I THEORY; PART II ANALYSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX

Daniel Béland is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Professor at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy in the University of Saskatchewan. Robert Henry Cox is Director and Associate Professor at the School of International and Area Studies in the University of Oklahoma.

This superb collection brings together, for the first time, the main contributors to the scholarship on the role of ideas in political life. A tight focus on ideas as causal beliefs within policy arenas joins up with a wide view across numerous subfields of political science and sociology to create a uniquely coherent and relevant volume that gracefully bridges multiple literatures. It will be important reading for those seeking to understand the many and vital ways in which ideas shape our politics.

• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS; PREFACE; INTRODUCTION: IDEAS AND POLITICS, DANIEL BELAND AND ROBERT HENRY COX; PART I THEORY; PART II ANALYSIS; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX