Understanding the relevance of ideas for governmentality: some conceptual and methodological reflections. Pascale Laborier CURAPP (Centre universitaire de recherches administratives et politiques de Picardie) Université de Picardie Jules Verne pascale.laborier@u-picardie.fr Yannis Papadopoulos Institut d’Etudes Politiques et Internationales Université de Lausanne ioannis.papadopoulos@iepi.unil.ch VERY FIRST DRAFT : PLEASE DO NOT QUOTE WITHOUT AUTHORS’ PERMISSION Paper presented at the EPCR Joint Sessions of Workshops, 13-18 April 2004, Uppsala, Sweden Workshop “Working With Ideology in a Post-Ideological Age” Directed by Michael Freeden and Gayil Tashir 1