Colin Hay's article ‘King Canute and the “Problem” of Structure and Agency’ aims to: (1) ‘gain an interesting political analytical purchase on a seemingly familiar tale’, and (2) ‘generate a series of valuable and more general insights into our understanding of the structure-agency relationship’. I argue that he fails on both counts.
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