Policy entrepreneurs and opportunities: Establishing a model of policy change through bicycle infrastructure at the municipal level

2017 ◽  
Vol 101 ◽  
pp. 252-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Johann Weber
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Bicycle Infrastructure ◽  
Municipal Level

POLICY CHANGE – THE ROLE OF IDEAS AND POLICY ENTREPRENEURS

2018 ◽  
pp. 63-72
Author(s):  
Arwanto Arwanto ◽  
Wike Anggraini
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Policy Process ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Multiple Streams ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Problem Framing ◽  
Exogenous Factors ◽  
The Relationship

ABSTRACT Understanding policy process involves many distinctive approaches. The most common are institutional, groups or networks, exogenous factors, rational actors, and idea-based approach. This paper discussed the idea-based approach to explain policy process, in this case policy change. It aims to analyse how ideas could assist people to understand policy change. What role do they play and why are they considered as fundamental element? It considers that ideas are belong to every policy actor, whether it is individual or institution. In order to answer these questions, this paper adopts Kingdon’s multi streams approach to analyse academic literatures. Through this approach, the relationship between ideas and policy change can be seen clearer. Ideas only can affect in policy change if it is agreed and accepted by policy makers. Therefore the receptivity of ideas plays significant role and it emerges policy entrepreneurs. They promote ideas (through problem framing, timing, and narrative construction) and manipulate in order to ensure the receptivity of ideas. Although policy entrepreneurs play significant role, political aspects remains the most important element in the policy process. Keywords: policy change, ideas, idea-based approach, Kingdon’s multiple streams, policy entrepreneurs.

Policy entrepreneurs, creative teamwork, and policy change

2014 ◽  
pp. 129-145 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Mintrom ◽  
Chris Salisbury
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs

POLICY CHANGE INCH BY INCH: POLICY ENTREPRENEURS IN THE HOLY BASIN OF JERUSALEM

2016 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 1042-1058 ◽  
Author(s):  
ILANA SHPAIZMAN ◽  
ORI SWED ◽  
AMI PEDAHZUR
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs

Policy Entrepreneurs and Foreign Policy Change: The Greek–Turkish Rapprochement in the 1990s

2012 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 597-617 ◽  
Author(s):  
Spyros Blavoukos ◽  
Dimitris Bourantonis
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Domestic Policy ◽  
Candidate Country ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Policy Making Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Policy Objectives ◽  
Foreign Policy Change

AbstractBesides systemic changes that lead to the re-prioritization of foreign policy objectives, foreign policy change is also a result of domestic policy entrepreneurs’ pursuit of a political return. Their potential to orchestrate change depends on the existing entry barriers that emanate from the political and institutional features of the domestic policy-making process. It is accentuated by system-wide developments and security crises that illustrate old policy failure. This article discusses the role of policy entrepreneurs in foreign policy change by reference to the Greek–Turkish rapprochement in the late 1990s that resulted in Turkey receiving the status of EU candidate country in 1999.

The strategies of policy entrepreneurs in water transitions around the world

Water Policy ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (5) ◽  
pp. 717-733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dave Huitema ◽  
Louis Lebel ◽  
Sander Meijerink
Keyword(s):  
Policy Change ◽  
Water Policy ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Coalition Building ◽  
Institutional Setting ◽  
Policy Entrepreneurs ◽  
Windows Of Opportunity ◽  
Venue Shopping ◽  
Policy Systems

This paper discusses sixteen instances of radical water policy change across the globe. The key question we seek to answer is about the role of individuals in such transitions. We call these individuals ‘policy entrepreneurs’ and we suggest that they can affect transitions through a set of strategies, such as idea development, coalition building, the detection and exploitation of windows of opportunity, network management, and venue shopping. Our empirical analysis shows that individuals do contribute to transitions. They do so in collectives, dividing tasks over various members. The way in which they manage to affect transitions depends, at least partly, on the institutional setting they operate in. Some national policy systems offer better opportunities for centralized direction (and thus top-down pattern of transitions) whilst other systems offer better chances for bottom-up change. In either case, change has to be prepared for before windows of opportunity open. One way to prepare change is to instigate pilot projects, showing the feasibility of other approaches to water management. Policy change is a political game: networks must be built, issues need to be framed strategically, forums manipulated or by-passed, and strategies adjusted to the peculiarities of the institutional system the entrepreneur is working in.

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