Historiography now treats ideas and advocacy groups as constitutive of political change.

Evidence

It has illuminated the relationship between the Cold War, the Rand Corporation, and the rise of rationalchoice theory in contemporary policy discourse. It has identifi ed the institutional levers that conservatives maneuvered to transform the practice of the legal profession. And it has helped clarify the essential role played by the pop u lar proselytizers in the expansive orbit of the National Review. Cumulatively, these contributions represent a paradigm shift in the way the history of conservatism is written. Ideas and intellectuals are now broadly acknowledged to have played a constitutive role in the conservative turn, and advocacy organizations have been assimilated as essential components of its instigation of po liti cal change. — Angus Burgin, The Great Persuasion, 26

Categorization

• DEFINE: Frames the book’s method shift: intellectual history that takes Hayek’s ideas themselves as causal rather than as screen for interests.
• XREF: connects to: Ideological struggle now operates through representations and imagery rather than concepts. — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 697

Broader Connections

• Ideological struggle now operates through representations and imagery rather than concepts. #expands (0.78) — Fredric Jameson, Postmodernism, or, The Cultural Logic…, 697