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The President as Policy Entrepreneur

2019
This concluding chapter focuses on the role of George W. Bush himself, arguing that by 2006–2007, the president had become a more mature and assertive commander-in-chief who asked hard questions of his military commanders and pushed the policy process to deliver strategic alternatives. The president successfully related the policy advice he received to
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Strategies for Policy Entrepreneurs

2013
This chapter brings the analysis to an operative conclusion by pointing out the different strategies that the policy entrepreneur can use in order to make a non-incremental policy change possible. In particular it will show how it is possible to modify the distribution of the resources, the patterns of interaction, the content of the decision and the ...
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Policy issues for Turkish entrepreneurs [PDF]

International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management, 2005
While it is becoming clear that there is a positive relationship between entrepreneurship and economic development, the topic of entrepreneurship in developing countries has been neglected in the literature. This paper assesses the problems and expectations of entrepreneurs in Turkey.
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Policy Entrepreneurs, Policy Opportunists, and Legislative Effectiveness

American Politics Quarterly, 1991
Although there is a growing literature on policy entrepreneurs and policy enactment, there has been little systematic examination of legislative policy entrepreneurs and the effect of policy entrepreneurship on a legislator's standing. This article identifies policy entrepreneurs in each of three sessions of the North Carolina General Assembly and ...
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Policy entrepreneurs, creative teamwork, and policy change

2014
Policy entrepreneurs seek policy changes that shift the status quo in given areas of public policy. Frequently, they work closely with others, and their activities call for high levels of creativity. That creativity is manifest, for instance, in how they interpret given policy contexts and problems and how they recruit support from other key actors in ...
Mintrom, Michael, Salisbury, Chris
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Public policy and expatriate entrepreneurs

Journal of Entrepreneurship and Public Policy, 2013
PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between demographic and public policy with the entrepreneurial related variables of entrepreneurial orientation, self employment, customer service, and leadership.Design/methodology/approachResults from 264 first generation expatriate entrepreneurs from Lebanon are used in order to examine
Zgheib, Philip W., Ahmed, Zafar U., Carraher, Shawn, Kowatly, Abdulrahim K.   +3 more
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Bring on the Policy Entrepreneurs

Issues in Science and Technology
Teaching early-career researchers the skills to engage in the policy arena could prepare them for a lifetime of high-impact engagement and invite new perspectives into the democratic process.
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Sozialarbeitende als Policy Entrepreneurs

2023
Der Beitrag zeigt, dass Sozialarbeitende als Policy Entrepreneurs sozialpolitische Innovationen gestalten können. Zwei Praxisbeispiele aus der Schweiz verdeutlichen, dass sich theoretische Ansätze aus den Politikwissenschaften dafür eignen, politikunternehmerisches Handeln im Sozialbereich zu analysieren.
Kehl, Konstantin, Kindler, Tobias
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Policy entrepreneurs: catalysts for policy innovation

2017
Contract No. N00014-84-K-0016 (ONR)
King, Paula J., Roberts, Nancy C.
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Explanations of Policy Change and the Role of Policy Entrepreneurs

2015
In contrast with the common suggestion that policy change is generally difficult to steer, this chapter demonstrates that various political and policy scientists nevertheless (directly or indirectly) acknowledge room for individual change agents to help stimulate or redirect debate about policy issues.
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