• DOI:10.1353/wp.2001.0003
Corpus ID: 19634871

Eugenic Ideas, Political Interests, and Policy Variance: Immigration and Sterilization Policy in Britain and the U.S.

@article{Hansen2001EugenicIP,
  title={Eugenic Ideas, Political Interests, and Policy Variance: Immigration and Sterilization Policy in Britain and the U.S.},
  author={Randall S. Hansen and Randall Desmond S King},
  journal={World Politics},
  year={2001},
  volume={53},
  pages={237 - 263}
}

• Randall S. Hansen, Randall Desmond S King
• Published 2001
• Sociology, Medicine
• World Politics

A burgeoning literature in comparative politics has sought to incorporate ideas into political analysis. In this article the authors categorize the main ways in which this incorporation has occurred--ideas as culture, ideas as expert knowledge, ideas as solutions to collective action problems, and ideas as programmatic beliefs--and explicate the different assumptions about causality and the permanence of ideas implied by these different frameworks. This theoretical exercise is then applied to… Expand