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The Master of Disaster as Bureaucratic Entrepreneur

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2005

Patrick Roberts
Affiliation:
Centennial Center Visiting Scholar

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.”

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Association News
Copyright
© 2005 by the American Political Science Association

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