“…This highlights ways in which insights from both literatures can provide more leverage over important policy and public administration questions as opposed to using just one theoretical lens (Arnold, 2021b; Cohen, 2021). A key first step has been the increasing recognition by scholars that low‐ and middle‐level government officials (Frisch‐Aviram et al, 2018), as well as street‐level bureaucrats (e.g., Arnold, 2021b; Aviv et al, 2021; Cohen, 2021; Cohen & Aviram, 2021; Cohen & Klenk, 2019; Durose, 2011; Frisch Aviram et al, 2021b; Golan‐Nadir, 2021; Lavee & Cohen, 2019; Lotta et al, 2021; Nouman & Cohen, 2023; Petchey et al, 2008; Zhang et al, 2021), do, in fact, pursue policy innovation. Policy entrepreneurship research had ignored these actors for many decades, reasoning that only high‐ranking decision makers had the motivation and skills needed to try to change policy (Arnold, 2015).…”