046 - Author Meets Critics Session. The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark (Princeton University Press, 2014) by John L. Campbell and Ove K. Pedersen

Session Submission Type: Author Meets Critics Session

Description

How are the ideas that shape economic policies generated and how do they become influential? In The National Origins of Policy Ideas, John Campbell and Ove Pedersen offer new answers to these questions, introducing the concept of ‘knowledge regimes’ to describe the policy communities, think tanks, research offices and partisan organizations that produce new ideas and communicate them to policy-makers. Comparing these regimes in the U.S., France, Germany and Denmark over the past thirty years, they reveal and explain persistent national differences in how policy ideas are generated, shedding new light on debates about capitalism, neoliberalism and the effects of globalization as well as the role of ideas in politics. On this panel three distinguished critics with divergent perspectives on these issues will comment on the formulations in this book and the authors will respond.

Sub Unit

• Author Meets Critics

Presider

• Peter A. Hall, Harvard University

Critics

• Neil Fligstein, University of Californnia

• Stephanie L. Mudge, University of California-Davis

• Rosemary CR Taylor, Tufts University

Authors

• John L. Campbell, Dartmouth College

• Ove Pedersen, Copenhagen Business School