A Theory of Political Entrepreneurship

McCaffrey, Matthew; Salerno, Joseph T.

doi:10.4236/me.2011.24061

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“…The term political entrepreneur, as an explicit concept, was developed by Dahl (1961) (McCaffrey andSalerno 2011). Dahl (1961, 6) contended that the political entrepreneur is the crucial agent of change, and "is not so much the agent of others as others are his agents."…”

Section: Agents Of Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis and Policy Change: The Role of the Political Entrepreneur

Hogan

Feeney

2012

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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This paper seeks to investigate the inner mechanics of policy change. It aims to discover how ideas enter the political arena, and how endogenous forces within the policy making environment transform ideas into new policies. The central hypothesis is that in times of crisis, new ideas emanate from a number of change agents, but in order for any of these ideas to enter the institutional environment, one specific agent of change must be present: the political entrepreneur. Without political entrepreneurs, ideational change, and subsequent policy change, would not occur. The paper sets out a framework for identifying and explaining the endogenous drivers of policy change, and then tests this framework on two case studies, from two countries.

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Section: Agents Of Changementioning

confidence: 99%

Crisis and Policy Change: The Role of the Political Entrepreneur

Hogan

Feeney

2012

Risk Hazard & Crisis Pub Pol

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“…In the economic literature, McCaffrey and Salerno () argue for an ideal type of political entrepreneur who owns the resources instead of mobilizing them; that is, possesses all decision‐making authority.…”

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Theories of the Policy Process: Contemporary Scholarship and Future Directions

Petridou¹

2014

Policy Studies Journal

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The object of policy research is the understanding of the interaction among the machinery of the state, political actors, and the public. To facilitate this understanding, a number of complementary theories have developed in the course of more than two decades. This article reviews recent scholarship on the established theories of the policy process, mostly published in 2011 and 2012. Additionally, scholarship extending these theories is identified and new theories of policy process are discussed. This review finds that the established theories have generated substantive scholarship during the period under review and have also been the springboard for much of the recent thinking in policy research.

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“…Thus, we emphasize not only that agency is composed of different patterns or sets of activities that correspond to specific goals and that can also be performed in a collective way to succeed but also that those different patterns define different coordination criteria and thus, the tasks that are expected to be accomplished (Emirbayer & Mishe, , p. 963). Therefore, leadership, entrepreneurship, and brokerage are conceived as embedded collective patterns of action through which agency is coordinated—vertically and/or horizontally—to reach a specific goal (Marion & Uhl‐Bien, ; McCaffrey & Salerno, ).…”

Section: Definitions Of Agency From Exceptional Individuals To Collecmentioning

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Policy dynamics and types of agency: From individual to collective patterns of action

Capano

Galanti

2018

European Policy Analysis

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Despite the relevance of structures and constraints to the outcomes of policy‐making, agency emerges as a key aspect in accounting for policy dynamics. Indeed, agency is a concept that may embrace different components according to their empirical reference and policy context. In policy studies, different agents are conceptualized to be relevant in policy‐making, but they address the issues of similar individuals who randomly jump into the policy process to make a specific contribution. This paper proposes to de‐personalize agency in policy dynamics by arguing that the different types of agents can be attributed to specific patterns of action and that related tasks are a necessary element of stability and change in policy dynamics. Thus, we propose three types of patterns—entrepreneurship, brokerage, and leadership—and we show how the use of these concepts can help to better order, describe, and grasp agency in policy dynamics.

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A Theory of Political Entrepreneurship

Cited by 70 publications

References 15 publications

Crisis and Policy Change: The Role of the Political Entrepreneur

Crisis and Policy Change: The Role of the Political Entrepreneur

Theories of the Policy Process: Contemporary Scholarship and Future Directions

Policy dynamics and types of agency: From individual to collective patterns of action

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