Don’t think it’s a good idea! Four building sites of the ‘ideas school’

Ideational explanations of policy change are popular in the fields political economy, comparative politics and analysis. And yet, to make case for ideational explanations, we must further progress on nature ideas, where they come from, what consist of, how over time. We highlight four critical building sites concerning definitional aspects micro-foundations, mechanisms difference between cognitive recommendations carry out work describe range suggestions ways forward found articles this Symposium. also suggest cross-fertilising science with findings neighbouring disciplines that have developed empirically robust models ideation cognition.