S OCIAL POLICY IN THE SMALLER EUROPEAN UNION STATES Edited lpy Gary B. Cohen/Ben W. Ansell, Robert Henry Cox, and Jane Gingrich / Berghahn Books NEW YORK • OXFORD C ONTENTS List of...

This paper examines the relationship between ideas and power. We argue that social change is caused by a combination of ideas, which are inspirational, and power, which is transformative. We illustrate the argument by examining the emergence of a sustainability policy paradigm

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, that political science-a discipline that focuses specifically on the nature of power-would have a healthy respect for...