Ideas are not as stable as political scientists want them to be: A theory of incremental ideational change

Political Studies

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 596-615

  Carstensen, Martin B ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Discourse; Ideas; Ideational change; Incrementalism; Paradigms

Indexed keywords

EID: 80052587892     PISSN: 00323217     EISSN: 14679248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2010.00868.x     Document Type: Article

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