Gathering top scholars in the field, this volume explores the relationship between the concept of political power and the role of ideas in politics and public policy research.

Daniel Béland holds the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy (Tier 1) at the Johnson-Shoyama Graduate School of Public Policy (University of Saskatchewan).

Martin B. Carstensen is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

Leonard Seabrooke is Professor of International Political Economy and Economic Sociology at the Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School.

1. Ideas, political power and public policy 2. Power through, over and in ideas: conceptualizing ideational power in discursive institutionalism 3. The power of economic ideas - through, over and in - political time: the construction, conversion and crisis of the neoliberal order in the US and UK 4. Powering ideas through expertise: professionals in global tax battles 5. Powerful rules governing the euro: the perverse logic of German ideas 6. The Bocconi boys go to Brussels: Italian economic ideas, professional networks and European austerity 7. Studying macroeconomic indicators as powerful ideas 8. Ideas as coalition magnets: coalition building, policy entrepreneurs, and power relations 9. Ideas and power: four intersections and how to show them 10. The New Ideas Scholarship in the Mirror of Historical Institutionalism: A Case of Old Whines in New Bottles?