Domestic politics theories of international political economy and the recent disruptions in international cooperation and trade apparently induced by domestic discontent have shown the crucial role domestic forces play in influencing governmental preferences. This article contributes to this theoretical school, first, by assessing seminal works on the ideational, material, and institutional dimensions of domestic politics, and second, by conceptualising the ‘societal approach’ to fill a major gap in domestic politics theorising. The societal approach asks under which conditions value-based societal ideas, domestic institutions, and material interests matter in shaping governmental preferences. When do ideas prevail over interests and vice versa? How do they interact with each other and with domestic institutions? The societal approach includes all three domestic variables as potential driving forces for governmental preferences and conceives them both as individual and as interacting forces. Most importantly, it complements domestic politics theories by proposing hypotheses on the conditions for the influence of each variable on governmental preferences. The article brings together previously conceived parts of the societal approach and considerably expands it.

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完善IPE的国内政治理论：政府偏好的社会方法

国际政治经济学的国内政治理论以及最近显然由国内不满引起的国际合作和贸易中断表明国内力量在影响政府偏好方面发挥了关键作用。本文对这一理论学派做出了贡献，首先，通过评估关于国内政治的观念、物质和制度维度的开创性著作，其次，通过概念化“社会方法”来填补国内政治理论的主要空白。社会方法询问在何种条件下基于价值的社会观念、国内制度和物质利益在塑造政府偏好方面很重要。什么时候想法优先于利益，反之亦然？它们之间以及如何与国内机构互动？社会方法包括所有三个国内变量作为政府偏好的潜在驱动力，并将它们视为个体和相互作用的力量。最重要的是，它通过对每个变量对政府偏好的影响条件提出假设来补充国内政治理论。这篇文章汇集了社会方法的先前构想的部分，并对其进行了相当大的扩展。它通过对每个变量对政府偏好的影响条件提出假设来补充国内政治理论。这篇文章汇集了社会方法的先前构想的部分，并对其进行了相当大的扩展。它通过对每个变量对政府偏好的影响条件提出假设来补充国内政治理论。这篇文章汇集了社会方法的先前构想的部分，并对其进行了相当大的扩展。