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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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Policy entrepreneurs and policy formulation

2017
The policy formulation stage provides extensive scope for policy entrepreneurs to exert influence on defining the agenda, developing viable proposals and ensuring authorization. This chapter explains how policy entrepreneurs take up a cause, make it part of the political agenda and achieve policy change.
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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 in national climate change policy processes

Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 2017
The multi-level and multi-actor character of the international climate governance regime, as well as the imminent need for action to combat climate change, stimulates the introduction of new and innovative cross-sectoral policy proposals by policy entrepreneurs.
Inken Reimer, Barbara Saerbeck
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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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Local Governments as Policy Entrepreneurs

Urban Affairs Review, 2007
One centerpiece of Florida’s landmark 1985 growth management legislation was the concept of concurrency, a requirement that new development not proceed unless specific services are in place to service the development. Whereas many analysts have critiqued Florida’s concurrency mandate, these studies have usually focused on concurrency as a concept and ...
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Policy Entrepreneurs and Dynamic Change

2019
Policy entrepreneurs are energetic actors who engage in collaborative efforts in and around government to promote policy innovations. Interest in policy entrepreneurs has grown over recent years. Increasingly, they are recognized as a unique class of political actors, who display common attributes, deploy common strategies, and can propel dynamic ...
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Economists, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Health Care Reform

Health Affairs, 1995
Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a "magic bullet" for doing so.
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Policy makers as institutional entrepreneurs

2020
A major development in the fields of innovation and sustainability policy is the rising interest for ‘mission-oriented innovation policies’ (MIPs). The formulation and pursuit of a mission with an ambitious societal goal may drive the transformation of socio-economic systems.
Janssen, M.J., Patterson, J.J., Wesseling, J.H.   +2 more
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Transnational Policy Entrepreneurs

2020
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