| 来源类型 | Discussion paper
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| 规范类型 | 论文
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| 来源ID | DP12820
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| DP12820 The Political Economy of Ideas: On Ideas versus Interests in Policymaking |
| Dani Rodrik; Sharun Mukand
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| 发表日期 | 2018-03-26
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| 出版年 | 2018
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | We develop a conceptual framework to highlight the role of ideas as a catalyst for policy and institutional change. We make an explicit distinction between ideas and vested interests and show how they feed into each other. In doing so the paper integrates the Keynes-Hayek perspective on the importance of ideas with the currently more fashionable Stigler-Becker (in-terests only) approach to political economy. We distinguish between two kinds of ideational politics – the battle among different worldviews on the efficacy of policy (worldview politics) versus the politics of victimhood, pride and identity (identity politics). Political entrepreneurs discover identity and policy ‘memes’ (narratives, cues, framing) that shifts beliefs about how the world works or a person’s belief of who he is (i.e. identity). Our framework identifies a complementarity between worldview politics and identity politics and illustrates how they may reinforce each other. In particular, an increase in identity polarization may be associated with a shift in views about how the world works. Furthermore, an increase in income inequality is likely to result in a greater incidence of ideational politics. Finally, we show how ideas may not just constrain, but also ‘bite’ the interests that helped propagate them in the first instance. |
| 主题 | Public Economics
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| URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp12820
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| 来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/541630
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Dani Rodrik,Sharun Mukand. DP12820 The Political Economy of Ideas: On Ideas versus Interests in Policymaking. 2018.
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