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Introducing the concept of pulsation, he argues in Fragile Conviction that ideational power must be understood in relation to three aspects: the voicing of the idea, its tension with everyday reality, and its reverberation within groups of listeners.
The application of social constructivist approaches to understanding GHG [ 42- 44], focused on the influence of ideational power in shaping thinking and action, is an important advance towards greater reflexivity.
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Elaborating on the distinction drawn by Reus-Smit between realist and constructivist approaches, we distinguish normative-ideational power (influence through argumentation and suasion, dear to constructivists) from material-physical power (influence through the manipulation of threats and coercion, emphasised by realists).
As shown in Fig. 1, besides considering material and ideational sources of power, we also need to consider different mechanisms of power (over/to/with), since they lead to different results of power (leading to a new distribution of sources in a circular process, see the arrow at the bottom of Fig. 1).
The movement delegitimizes the acquisition of land by established conglomerates ("land grabbing"), whose ideational sources of power shrink in consequence.
Tuozzo (2004) also describes the coercive influence that the World Bank's policy intervention has had in Argentina, finding that "Bank policy research is a discursive or ideational form of power that helps to set and sustain development agendas, some of which might not be the most adequate or beneficial to a borrowing country" [ 29].
"This is not merely a change of power but an ideational change.
When the legitimacy of unconditional import as well as of private certification schemes was put into question [50], transnational conglomerates lost ideational and material resources on which their power over others was based.
We therefore conducted a text search of the 7 documents for words that might point to an explicit ideational influence: 'idea[s]'ideationalnal'ideologyogy'discourserse'philosophyphy', and 'belief'belief
In the first dimension, agents exercise visible power when they directly influence political decision-makers based on their material and ideational resources [42].
They are material, not ideational.
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