Ideas, Culture and Political Analysis Workshop  

Table of Contents

Kathleen McNamara and Sheri Berman
Introduction to the Conference: Ideas, Culture and Political Analysis

Neil Fligstein
Institutional Entrepreneurs and Cultural Frames: The Case of the European Union's Single Market Program

Frank Dobbin
How Institutions Create Ideas: Railroad Finance and the Construction of Public and Private in France and the United States

Mark Blyth
The Neoliberal Moment in Sweden: Economic Ideas and the Transformation of the State

Sheri Berman
Ideas and Culture in Political Analysis

Ken Pollack
Arab Culture and Arab Military Performance: Tracing the Transmission Mechanism

George Steinmetz
Cultural Studies and the Historical Study of State Formation

Daniel Philpott
The Reputational Power of Ideas and the End of Empire

Jan Kubik
Does Culture Matter in Postcommunist Transformations? Bipolar Cultural Frames in Polish Post-1989 Politics.

Gideon Rose
Lessons, Power and Wartime Policy

Martha Finnemore and Kathryn Sikkink
International Norm Dynamics and Political Change

Jeffrey T. Checkel
International Norms and Domestic Agents: Probing the Dynamics of Socialization

Thomas Risse
The Socialization of International Norms into Domestic Practices: Arguing and Strategic Adaptation in the Human Rights Area

Marie Gottschalk
Labor's Embrace of the Private Welfare State: How Ideas Shaped Health Policy in the U.S.

John Kurt Jacobsen
"Putting it all into context": Economic ideas, persuasion and legitimacy

Sarah Mendelson
Democratizing Russia: The Process of Adopting International Norms and Practices

Consuelo Cruz
Constructed Realisms: Distinction and Development in Central America

Anna Seleny
The Discourse of Ideas and the Interests of Identity