Paradigm man vs. the bricoleur: Bricolage as an alternative vision of agency in ideational change

European Political Science Review

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 147-167

  Carstensen, Martin B ^a  

^a AALBORG UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

agency; bricolage; change; ideas; institutions; paradigms

Indexed keywords

EID: 85011463111     PISSN: 17557739     EISSN: 17557747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755773910000342     Document Type: Article

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