Policy Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies, the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within analyses of policy chan...

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Published in:Policy studies journal 2009-11, Vol.37 (4), p.649-667
Main Authors: Mintrom, Michael, Norman, Phillipa
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Advocacy
agenda setting
Coalitions
Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship
Information sharing
institutional change
Institutionalism
Interest groups
Interpretation and construction
leadership
policy change
policy entrepreneurship
Policy Reform
Political aspects
Public policy (Law)
R&D
Research & development
Studies
Teams
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Summary:This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies, the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within analyses of policy change. To facilitate more integration of the concept, we here show how policy entrepreneurship can be understood within more encompassing theorizations of policy change: incrementalism, policy streams, institutionalism, punctuated equilibrium, and advocacy coalitions. Recent applications of policy entrepreneurship as a key explanation of policy change are presented as models for future work. Room exists for further conceptual development and empirical testing concerning policy entrepreneurship. Such work could be undertaken in studies of contemporary and historical policy change.
ISSN:0190-292X
1541-0072
DOI:10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00329.x