The research described here focuses on "policy entrepreneurs." These are public entrepreneurs who, from outside the formal positions of government, introduce, translate, and help implement new ideas into public practice.
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Examining strategies used by policy entrepreneurs can enhance our understanding of how policy changes occur in the policy making process. ... This work begins by introducing the concept of policy entrepreneurs as political actors. How they have been defined and described by others political scientists is reviewed.
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Two perspectives have emerged,6 one advanced by academics and the other by "policy entrepreneurs." While attempting to shed light on the politics of policy making, my primary objective is to contextualize the role of various communities of specialists in the shaping of American foreign policy towards Islam.
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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.
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The description of these four models of policy entrepreneurship has been developed by Simon Maxwell at ODI, in order to help researchers identify what kind of policy entrepreneurs they are, so that they can capitalise on their strengths, develop their weaknesses and improve the impact of research on policy.
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Researchers and development practitioners need a wide range of skills to be effective policy entrepreneurs. The results of a policy entrepreneur questionnaire indicated that most participants favoured "networking" and "engineering" (ie doing things practically) over "storytelling" and "fixing" (political lobbying).
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In 1988, the Chicago School Reform Act was passed, dramatically changing the governance structure of CPS. Policy makers, school reform advocates, parents, community activists, and so forth believed that the implementation of this act would be the panacea for reforming CPS. Why did the Illinois General Assembly...
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Through analysis of the interviews and documents, we identified three groups of policy entrepreneurs who contributed to the problem and policy streams and coupled these with the politics stream, successfully moving this innovative policy alternative (Act 1220) through a momentary “policy window” into law.
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The political factors that have shaped national EPSDT policy during the past decade are described, based on a conceptual framework developed by John W. Kingdon. The analysis focuses on the roles of two distinct sets of policy entrepreneurs: child health advocates and fiscally conservative governors.
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Research on policy entrepreneurs at the state level has consistently found these political actors to be influential in the innovation and diffusion of state policy by providing funds building coalitions defining and disseminating ideas as well as gaining access to policy agendas. ... State Governors as Policy Entrepreneurs:
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