Why and How Ideas Matter

The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Rueschemeyer, Dietrich ^a  

^a BROWN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ideas; People's preferences; Political analysis; Selection mechanism; Social processes; Social thought

Indexed keywords

EID: 85066672478     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199270439.003.0012     Document Type: Chapter

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