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dc.contributor.authorAnderson, Elisabeth-
dc.date.accessioned2023-05-25T06:54:26Z-
dc.date.available2023-05-25T06:54:26Z-
dc.date.issued2012-12-06-
dc.identifier.citationAnderson, E. (2013). “Ideas in action: The politics of Prussian child labor reform, 1817-1839.” Theory and Society, 42, 81-119. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-012-9186-4en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2451/64432-
dc.description.abstractThis article explains the political origins of an 1839 law regulating the factory employment of children in Prussia. The article has two aims. First, it seeks to explain why Prussia adopted the particular law that it did. Existing historical explanations of this particular policy change are not correct, largely because they fail to take into account the actual motivations and intentions of key reformers. Second, the article contributes to theories of the role of ideas in public policymaking. Ideas interact with institutional and political factors to serve as motivators and as resources for policy change. As motivators, they drive political action and shape the content of policy programs; as resources, they enable political actors to recruit supporters and forge alliances. I offer a theory of the relationship between ideas, motivation, and political action, and I develop a methodological framework for assessing the reliability of political actors’ expressed motivations. Further, I explain how political actors use ideas as resources by deploying three specific ideational strategies: framing, borrowing, and citing. By tracing how different understandings of the child labor problem motivated and were embodied in two competing child labor policy proposals, I show how the ideas underlying reform had significant consequences for policy outcomes.en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSpringeren
dc.rightsCC BY-NC-NDen
dc.subjectpolicy changeen
dc.subjectmotivationen
dc.subjectpolitical actionen
dc.subjectideasen
dc.subjectinstitutionsen
dc.subjectideational strategyen
dc.subjectframingen
dc.titleIdeas in action: The politics of Prussian child labor reform, 1817–1839en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-012-9186-4-
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