Bringing political identity into discursive and ideational analysis: Welfare reform in Britain and the United States
Bringing political identity into discursive and ideational analysis: Welfare reform in Britain and the United States
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将政治认同纳入话语和观念分析：英国和美国的福利改革
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2013
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F. Ross
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F. Ross
在过去的十年里，政治学受益于对思想、话语和建构主义的研究的蓬勃发展。这些结构和理论极大地丰富了我们对政治过程、结构和案例的理解，但尽管它们承诺为制度主义注入一种能动性来源，但它们尚未对行为者进行有意义的理解。本文探讨了政治身份的影响，一个概念，是密切联系在一起的建构主义研究议程的核心认识论，通过福利改革的透镜在两个情况下，身份政治的力量不同，英国和美国。身份的概念涉及到谁在构建思想和话语，它邀请概念和话语分析认真对待行为者，超越他们作为思想者和演讲者的一般角色。在选民中，各行为体之间并没有平等地分享构建改革必要性的能力。认同现存路径的行动者更有能力构建脱离该路径的命令，在制度层面的精英中，身份政治是部落的，立法者有明确的动机来降低对自己首领的阻力。文章认为，新工党享有更大的成功，在建设一个改革的必要性，并在立法戏剧性的变化，部分是因为它的政治身份。在美国观察到的影响要弱得多，但仍然可以确定。
Over the past decade political science has benefited from a blossoming of research on ideas, discourse and constructivism. These constructs and theories have greatly enriched our understanding of political processes, structures and cases but they have yet to elaborate a meaningful understanding of the actor despite promising to infuse institutionalism with a source of agency. This article explores the impact of political identity, a concept that is intimately linked with the core epistemology of the constructivist research agenda, through the lens of welfare reform in two cases where the strength of identity politics differs, Britain and the United States. The concept of identity relates to who is constructing ideas and discourse and it invites ideational and discursive analyses to take actors seriously, beyond their generic role as thinkers and speakers. Among voters, the capacity to construct an imperative for reform is not shared equally between actors. Actors who are identified with the extant path are more able to construct the imperative for departing from that path. Among elites at the institutional level, identity politics are tribal and legislators have clear incentives to lower resistance to their own chieftains. The article argues that New Labour enjoyed enhanced success in constructing an imperative for reform and in legislating dramatic change in part because of its political identity. Much weaker but still identifiable effects are observed in the United States.
解释控制的主导地位：当代英国的政党间动态和限制性庇护政策
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