Economic development, technological innovation, and policy change are especially
prominent factors shaping energy transitions. Therefore explaining energy transitions …

The refugee crisis of 2015 can be characterised as an exogenous shock, an immigration
shock, which according to institutional theory may create a window of opportunity for path …

While the recent IR “narrative turn” has greatly improved our understanding of how
narratives influence state policy choices, we need to deepen our understanding of how …

Dominant narratives-from the Cold War consensus to the War on Terror-have often served
as the foundation for debates over national security. Weaving current challenges, past …

Owing to the tendency of discursive institutionalists to conflate the notion that 'ideas
matter'for policy-making with the 'power of ideas', little has been done to explicitly theorize …

Creating a clear, analytical framework, this comprehensive exploration of the relationship
between institutional theory and the study of organizations continues to reflect the richness …

Drawing on evolutionary epistemology, process ontology, and a social-cognition approach,
this book suggests cognitive evolution, an evolutionary-constructivist social and normative …

This book assesses the forces of social struggle shaping the past and present of the global
political economy from the perspective of historical materialism. Based on the philosophy of …

Writing about ideas, John Maynard Keynes noted that they are" more powerful than is
commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." One would expect, therefore …

Stagnating political participation, the growth of delegated agencies and the prevalence of
rationalistic-technocratic discourse all represent interlinking aspects of what can been …