Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-p9bg8 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-01-03T14:38:12.888Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Master of Disaster as Bureaucratic Entrepreneur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2005

Patrick Roberts
Patrick Roberts
Affiliation:
Centennial Center Visiting Scholar
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Washington, D.C., overflows with organized interests and issue networks competing for the attention of lawmakers. A very few people manage to navigate the flotsam and jetsam of the policy currents to redefine an issue or put a new problem on the political agenda. Like their cousins in the private market, political scientists call these navigators “entrepreneurs.”

Type
Association News
Information
PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 38 , Issue 2 , April 2005 , pp. 331
Copyright
© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Mintrom Michael. 1997. “Policy Entrepreneurs and the Diffusion of Innovation.” American Journal of Political Science 41: 738– 770.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Mintrom Michael. 2000. Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press.Google Scholar
Olson Mancur. 1965. The Logic of Collective Action: Harvard Economic Studies, v. 124. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.Google Scholar
Teske Paul, and Mark Schneider. 1994. “The Bureaucratic Entrepreneur: The Case of City Managers.” Public Administration Review 34 (4): 331– 340.Google Scholar
Wilson James Q. 1989. Bureaucracy. New York: Basic Books.Google Scholar