Vivien Schmidt on Understanding Power Through Ideas and Discourse
In her newest publication, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective, Professor Vivien Ann Schmidt brings decades of influential scholarship on ideas and discourse into a single, ambitious volume that reframes how political scientists and social scientists understand power, legitimacy, and change. Drawing on work begun in the late…
Schmidt Shares Ideas Behind Forthcoming Book at the Free University of Brussels
On December 10, 2025, Professor Vivien Ann Schmidt joined a roundtable discussion at the Institute of European Studies at the Free University of Brussels. She was joined by Sophie Jacquot (UCLouvain), Amandine Crespy (IEE-ULB), and Hugo Corten (ULB) to discuss her upcoming book, The Power of Ideas and Discourse in Political Analysis: A Discursive Institutionalist Perspective….