Antidiscrimination Laws, Policy Knowledge and Political Support

Policy ideas , knowledge regimes and comparative political economy

Despite much attention to how ideas affect policy making, where these ideas come from is a blind spot in comparative political economy. We show that an important source of policy ideas are knowledge regimes—fields of policy research organizations. We show as well that the organization of knowledge regimes is heavily influenced by the organization of their surrounding political economies such th...

Public Policy and the Political Economics of Knowledge

Public policy is an art not a science. It gets made under conditions of incomplete information and constricted rationality. It is susceptible to the rhetoric and mythology of politics, to chauvinism and xenophobia, and the invocation of particular demons and poster children. However, to be done properly it must account for technological change and the economic and social implications of change....

It’s Political: How the Salience of One’s Political Identity Changes Climate Change Beliefs and Policy Support

Antidiscrimination and Accommodation

Laws and Tendencies in Marxist Political Economy1

Whilst terms like ‘law of the tendency’, ‘tendency law’ and „tendential law‟ appear in Marxist political economy, their meaning is unclear. This paper identifies the main conceptions of laws and tendencies buried in these terms and disambiguates them. Part one differentiates three conceptions of law: (i) event regularity; (ii) event regularity/tendency and (iii) tendency. Part two focuses on (i...