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Author : Gregory Allen Cline
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 650 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Change Agents and Policy Entrepreneurs at the Local Level written by Gregory Allen Cline and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 650 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Mintrom
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108643434
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (86 download)
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurs and Dynamic Change written by Michael Mintrom and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-07 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepreneurs has grown over recent years. Increasingly, they are recognized as a unique class of political actors, who display common attributes, deploy common strategies, and can propel dynamic shifts in societal practices. This Element assesses the current state of knowledge on policy entrepreneurs, their actions, and their impacts. It explains how various global forces are creating new demand for policy entrepreneurship, and suggests directions for future research on policy entrepreneurs and their efforts to drive dynamic change.
Author : Caner Bakir
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319703501
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change written by Caner Bakir and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-02-19 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e., how institutional change actually takes place). However, past research has generally been limited to specific intellectual silos or scholarly domains of inquiry. Policy scholars, for example, have tended to focus on the various mechanisms and levels at which agency operates, drawing on institutionalist perspectives but not always actively contributing to institutionalist theory. Institutionalist perspectives, by contrast, have tended to operate at macro-levels of enquiry, embracing the ontological primacy of institutions in processes of isomorphism but not necessarily contributing to or embracing policy perspectives that engage in more granular analyses of policy making processes, implementation, and the instantiation of institutional and policy change. Despite the obvious complementarities of these two intellectual traditions, it is surprising how little collaborative work, or indeed cross fertilization of theory and analytical design has occurred. The core novelty of this volume is thus its focus on agential actors within institutional settings and processes of entrepreneurship that facilitate isomorphism and policy change. The book’s theoretical framework is grounded in variants of institutional theory, especially historical, sociological and organisational institutionalism and policy entrepreneurship literature. The overall conclusion is that that both institutionalists and public policy scholars have largely overlooked the importance of complex interactions between interdependent structures, institutions, and agents in processes of institutional and policy change.
Author : Joachim Von Braun
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN 13 : 0896296601
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (962 download)
Download or read book The Poorest and Hungry written by Joachim Von Braun and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2009 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have the lives of the world's poorest, neediest people improved over the past few decades? What policies have lifted some people out of the worst forms of poverty, and what conditions keep others mired within it? The Poorest and Hungry: Assessment, Analyses, and Actions answers such questions, bringing together studies of both what causes and what reduces severe poverty from a diverse group of development specialists. The book focuses on the poorest and hungry in society and identifies areas for action. Stable economic growth; targeted social programs and insurance that invest in and protect nutrition, health, and education; and political and social inclusion of previously marginalized groups emerge as the essential requirements for poverty reduction, and this book's contributors identify strategies for promoting all three. The Poorest and Hungry is an important resource for policymakers, development specialists, and others concerned with helping the world's poorest people.
Author : Michael Mintrom
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781589013889
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (138 download)
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice written by Michael Mintrom and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2000-04-26 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. In this book, Michael Mintrom explores the complex world of open-enrollment policies, charter schools and voucher plans to reveal how and why school choice has become a major issue, and he draws important conclusions about how innovative individuals can spur significant change in the policy arena. Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who take up a cause and make it part of the political agenda—have largely remained background figures without clear definition in the policymaking literature. This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the concept of policy entrepreneurship, providing an important foundation for explaining how policy proposals are initiated, considered, and adopted. Mintrom uses the emergence of school choice in state politics to examine how policy change originates. He shows how policy entrepreneurs have been instrumental in placing school choice onto state legislative agendas, despite the lack of compelling evidence about its merits, and how they use social networks, reframe policy issues, and attempt to shift the sites of policy debate. Blending innovative theory with both qualitative and quantitative investigation, Mintrom explains how energetic individuals made school choice a real choice. In doing so, he changes our broader understanding of how policy is formed.
Author : Nissim Cohen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108875238
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurship at the Street Level written by Nissim Cohen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element aims to connect the literature of street-level bureaucrats with that of policy entrepreneurship in order to analyze why and how bureaucrats operating at the street level can promote policy change in public administration at the individual level. I demonstrate how street-level bureaucrats act as policy entrepreneurs in different contexts around the globe to promote policy change and analyze what they think of policy entrepreneurship and what they do about it in practice. For this purpose, I use multiple research methods: a survey, in-depth interviews, focus groups and textual analyses. I also offer recommendations to decision-makers to promote street-level policy entrepreneurship, highlighting the benefits of doing so. Lastly, I critically discuss the normative aspects of street-level policy entrepreneurship: ultimately, is it desirable?
Author : Michael Mintrom
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000200353
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurship written by Michael Mintrom and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Policy entrepreneurs engage in collaborative action to promote broad societal changes. They distinguish themselves from other political actors through their willingness to promote policy innovations that are new within specific contexts. Policy Entrepreneurship: An Asian Perspective showcases an exciting collection of new research studies. Previous studies of policy entrepreneurship within specific contexts across this vast region have confirmed the explanatory power of the concept, even though the political systems under investigation are distinct from the political system in the United States, where the notion of policy entrepreneurship was coined. This book is the first ever comprehensive compilation of research on policy entrepreneurship in Asia, and focused on policy change in China, India, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. All the studies gathered here assess the agency of policy entrepreneurs within broader structures that present them with both opportunities and constraints. In their different ways, each chapter explores how structural changes, specific strategies used by policy entrepreneurs, and the practice of boundary spanning shape policy agendas. The scholarship on display offers an inspiring treasure trove of ideas, insights, concepts, and research strategies. This book will prompt newer scholarship on policy entrepreneurs and the crucial role they play in contemporary politics, in Asia and globally. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Asian Public Policy.
Author : Mark Schneider
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400821576
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Public Entrepreneurs written by Mark Schneider and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they identify are most often mayors, city managers, or individual citizens. These entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas and implement new service and tax arrangements where existing administrative practices and budgetary allocations prove inadequate to meet a range of problems, from economic development to the racial transition of neighborhoods. How do public entrepreneurs emerge? How much does the future of urban development depend on them? This book answers these questions, using data from over 1,000 local governments. The emergence of public entrepreneurs depends on a set of familiar cost-benefit calculations. Like private sector risk-takers, public entrepreneurs exploit opportunities emerging from imperfect markets for public goods, from collective-action problems that impede private solutions, and from situations where information is costly and the supply of services is uneven. The authors augment their quantitative analysis with ten case studies and show that bottom-up change driven by politicians, public managers, and other local agents obeys regular and predictable rules.
Author : Wallace Swan
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 082475087X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (247 download)
Download or read book Handbook of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, and Transgender Administration and Policy written by Wallace Swan and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen articles assess the status of gay, lesbian, bisexual, and trangender (GLBT) rights in public policy and administration in the United States and call attention to a number of policy and administrative issues of concern to the GLBT community that are seen by editor Swan (Minneapolis Board of Estimate and Taxation) to be underreported and unde.
Author : Olivia Mettang
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031174496
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (311 download)
Download or read book Street-Level Workers as Institutional Entrepreneurs written by Olivia Mettang and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-11-14 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introducing the institutional logics perspective to street-level analysis, this book examines how street-level workers deal with the institutional logics that guide their organization – whether they follow or challenge them. While doing so, the book develops a theoretical framework to study street-level workers’ institutional agency within organizations from different institutional backgrounds. The book conceptualizes street-level workers as institutional entrepreneurs and presents an original process model to capture deinstitutionalization efforts in street-level discourse. This ordinal model accounts for embedded agency and institutional entrepreneurship as well as for more gradual moves towards deinstitutionalization through the hybridization of institutional logics. The author tests the model empirically using interview data and discusses how street-level workers diverge from the institutional logic of their organization in almost two thirds of their statements, indicating a tendency towards institutional entrepreneurship. The book finally combines two literature strands: institutionalism and implementation research, showing how street-level workers may be perceived as institutional entrepreneurs. This book will appeal to students, scholars, and researchers of political science, public policy, public administration, and organizational studies, as well as to practitioners and policy-makers interested in a better understanding of institutional entrepreneurs, street work, and the institutional logics perspective.
Author : Raymond J. Higbea
Publisher : Jones & Bartlett Learning
ISBN 13 : 1284207781
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (842 download)
Download or read book Government and Policy for U.S. Health Leaders written by Raymond J. Higbea and published by Jones & Bartlett Learning. This book was released on 2019-12-02 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written with graduate students in mind, this balanced, cross-disciplinary text explores health policy from all directions -- theory, philosophy, ethics, history, economics, analysis, etc. -- for a complete and thorough examination of policy today. Its unique approach comprehensively explores the health policy process; looking at why we are here, how we got here, and what are the outcomes. Beginning with government, political philosophy and health policy, this comprehensive text moves before on to a thorough examination of international health comparisons, political theory and the policy process. The book concludes with health policy topical concerns, policy outcomes, and advocacy. Its broad cross-disciplinary approach to the health policy process makes this text an ideal, well-rounded resource for policy courses across the health professions.
Author : Vishal Narain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108429580
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Public Policy written by Vishal Narain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses theories and concepts used in the analysis of public policy processes, studying theories of policy processes, monitoring and evaluation.
Author : Inga Narbutaité Aflaki
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317142543
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)
Download or read book Entrepreneurship in the Polis written by Inga Narbutaité Aflaki and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-05-06 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dynamics of entrepreneurship have attracted growing attention from scholars of political science, policy studies, public administration and planning, as well as more recently, from the realms of international relations and foreign policy analysis. Under the banner of political entrepreneurship, this volume considers and maps out conceptual approaches to the study of entrepreneurship drawn from these fields, discusses synergies, envisages new analytical tools and offers contemporary empirical case studies, illustrating the diverse political contexts in which entrepreneurship takes place in the polis. Drawing upon an international cast of senior academics and cutting edge young researchers, the volume takes a closer look at key aspects of political entrepreneurship, such as, defining political entrepreneurs, how it relates to change, decision-making and strategies, organizational arrangements, institutional rules, varying contexts and future research agendas. By highlighting the political aspects of entrepreneurship, the volume presents new exciting opportunities for understanding entrepreneurial activities at regional, national and international levels. The volume will be of particular relevance to scholars and students of political science, policy studies, public administration, planning, international relations and business studies as well as practitioners interested in the nexus and utility of entrepreneurship in the modern-day political world.
Author : Hodgson, Susan M.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 9781861349125
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (491 download)
Download or read book Policy Reconsidered written by Hodgson, Susan M. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies key topics within the policy arena and subjects them to sustained theoretical and practical appraisal. This book explores the development of the meaning and language of policy, and examines its practice from the micro- to the supra-national levels, using case studies to demonstrate how policy is contested, shaped and accounted for.
Author : Baines, Susan
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447347838
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)
Download or read book Implementing Innovative Social Investment written by Baines, Susan and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2020-07-15 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The turn towards a Social Investment approach to welfare implies deploying resources to enhance human capital and mobilise the productive potential of citizens, starting in early childhood. This edited collection brings regional and local realities to the forefront of social investment debates by showcasing successes, challenges and setbacks of Social Investment policies and services from ten European countries: Italy, UK, Sweden, Finland, Greece, Germany, Poland, the Netherlands, Hungary, and Spain. It provides practical, accessible illustrations of good practice, routes to success, and lessons learned. The book is informed throughout by engagement with service users and local communities, and features many previously unheard voices including front-line workers, local decision makers, volunteers and beneficiaries.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9264009914
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (64 download)
Download or read book Local Economic and Employment Development (LEED) Culture and Local Development written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2005-04-21 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication highlights the impact of culture on local economies and the methodological issues related to its identification.
Author : Stijn Brouwer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319172417
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)
Download or read book Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Governance written by Stijn Brouwer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-05-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses policy making processes at the micro-level and offers a unique insight into the fascinating world of policy entrepreneurs, elucidating their strategic modus operandi. The author identifies change strategies and explores the role of individuals in policy change processes. Readers will see how these highly talented and exceptional bureaucrats are constantly on the alert for new opportunities and have the capacity to “sell” and “market” new ideas. Based on a uniquely comprehensive four-year study, entailing more than 60 in-depth interviews and an extensive survey of over 300 water policy entrepreneurs in the Netherlands, this book explores the different strategies that policy entrepreneurs employ. It identifies which conditions affect the policy entrepreneur’s selection of strategies and more importantly, it assesses the (contextual) effectiveness of these strategies. Although the context of the study makes this work directly relevant to those in the fields of water resources and environmental management, it delivers universally relevant conclusions on affecting policy change. In addition to the theoretical material that will appeal to scholars and students, this book highlights a series of concrete recommendations for practitioners on how to affect policy change, making it of interest to academics and decision makers in the broad areas of policy change, sustainability and water management.
