POLI 243 Chapter Notes - Chapter article: David Lumsdaine, Path Dependence, Gie

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 243
• Professor: Anthony Imbrogno

Document Summary

When international organization was founded, dominant realist views of politics, while rejecting idealism, were very much concerned with issues of legitimacy and ideology. Scholars recognized that decolonization was driven by a profoundly normative agenda and that it explicitly sought to reconstitute the identities of both the new states and their former colonizers. Transnational actors that were sometimes influenced by norms and ideas. Social construction processes and norm influences in international politics. The ideatio(cid:374)al (cid:862)tu(cid:396)(cid:374)(cid:863) of (cid:396)e(cid:272)e(cid:374)t (cid:455)ea(cid:396)s is a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) a (cid:396)etu(cid:396)(cid:374) to so(cid:373)e t(cid:396)aditio(cid:374)al (cid:272)o(cid:374)(cid:272)e(cid:396)(cid:374)s of the discipline. We generate some propositions about 3 aspects of norms: their origins, mechanisms by which they exercise influence, conditions under which norms will be influential in world politics. No(cid:396)(cid:373)s e(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e i(cid:374) a patte(cid:396)(cid:374)ed (cid:862)life (cid:272)(cid:455)(cid:272)le(cid:863: the current tendency to oppose norms against rationality or rational choice is not helpful in explaining many of the most politically salient processes w see in empirical research. Norm and normative issues central to the study of politics.