Academics in public office as policy entrepreneurs: their important role in Indonesia’s administrative reform

Wicaksono, Ario

doi:10.1080/17516234.2019.1663338

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“…In the Indonesian government system, there is a long-standing tradition of hiring academics with certain skills as policy Fig. 1 Self-assessment of skills, training, and confidence in professional abilities: Side-by-side comparison entrepreneurs, or what is known as "Academic Administrative Entrepreneurs" (Wicaksono, 2020). Their expertise supports and influences the process of bureaucratic reform, although their role is limited to changes that have low political risks.…”

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Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia

2022

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An emerging body of scholarship suggests that "Western" notions of policy analysis may not be relevant in "Eastern" jurisdictions, and that non-Western countries, particularly in Asia, may have their own local policy analytical style or tradition. However, in many Asian countries, little is known about the work that public sector policy analysts do. Using data from a survey and focus groups, this article investigates policy analysis and analytical capacity in the provincial government of West Java, Indonesia. We find ample signs of policy analytical activity as it would be understood by Western scholars, with little evidence of any specific Asian style.

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Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia

2022

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“…The knowledge institutions, however, are most commonly actors or institutions of authority from academia, and especially in the context of the Global South, institutions of higher education are often used as a legitimating authority for policy design and action (Yuliar & Syamwil, 2008). Sometimes, academics are purposefully hired into government offices as experts and play a role as "policy entrepreneurs" (Wicaksono, 2020) There are other institutions that we list in this category, involving independent researchers and organizations or advocacy groups with strong relations with community groups, which in the cases that follow include NGOs and advocacy organizations like Bakti and Semeru Institut. 1 Finally, a third categorization involves the publics, defined as those who are invited to participate because they will be directly affected, or various actors that are regularly invited in public consultations.…”

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Blind spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co‐production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia

Sahide

Fisher

Sirimorok

et al. 2023

Development Policy Review

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SummaryMotivationThere has been growing interest in recent years in a better understanding of knowledge/science and policy co‐production in environmental governance.PurposeWe aim to shed more light on the politics among the numerous actors shaping ideas that drive environmental policy in Indonesia. We focus our theoretical engagement on a framing of bureaucratic politics, which is a research tradition that has made various strides in explaining the formal and non‐formal processes that influence environmental governance outcomes.Methods and approachBuilding from a wide range of case studies drawn from deep engagement of participatory research in policy‐making in Indonesia, we established a simple typology that helps explain eight categories that emerge when bureaucracies, knowledge institutions, and publics come together to shape environmental governance outcomes.FindingsThe bureaucratic politics specifically clarified the features of cases that have clear fragmentation of bureaucracy but clear explanation variables from the formal and informal interest of bureaucracy. Potential uncovered by bureaucratic politics framing means that, if the metapolitical works alter, the bureaucracy works smoothly or makes it impossible for bureaucracy to operationalize their formal and informal interest in capturing the dynamics of macro and micro politics. In terms of form of knowledge, knowledge produced “from below” can also be used in policy co‐production. It can be produced by non‐expert actors, or from dialogue among them and sympathetic experts that occur below the bureaucracy's radar (people‐driven).Policy implicationsOur ideal policy co‐production implication is where the three actors have a strong foundation of “common consciousness” and interact equally to address a particular environmental policy agenda, with enough working space to jointly commit to creating the knowledge base to shape policy.

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Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur

Arnold

2020

Public Administration

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Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who champion a policy and engage in intense advocacy to secure it—are most frequently characterized as political elites or individuals well connected to such elites. However, an emerging literature suggests that street‐level bureaucrats who deliver government services to the public can also prosecute policy entrepreneurship. There has been little investigation of how these actors differ from elite‐level policy entrepreneurs who focus on agenda‐setting and initial policy approval. Evidence from six case vignettes from US state wetland policy suggest that street‐level policy entrepreneurs are distinguished by defensive motivation, greater constancy of effort, recruitment of a less politically powerful network of supporters, and challenges associated with cultivating ties to external resource providers and intra‐governmental allies. Street‐level policy entrepreneurship helps explain policy innovation within bureaucracies and by bureaucrats, offering new insight into the motivation and behaviours of ground‐level officials whose day‐to‐day choices shape policy.

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Academics in public office as policy entrepreneurs: their important role in Indonesia’s administrative reform

Cited by 3 publications

References 33 publications

Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia

Policy analytical capacity and "Eastern" styles of policy analysis: evidence from West Java Province, Indonesia

Blind spots and spotlights in bureaucratic politics: An analysis of policy co‐production in environmental governance dynamics in Indonesia

Distinguishing the street‐level policy entrepreneur

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