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Political entrepreneurship


  • Here are entered works on the practice by political officials or employees of winning support from within a government for change either in public policy or in the allocation of public resources.
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    • Entrepreneurship, Political
    • Entrepreneurship in government
    • Policy entrepreneurship
    • Public entrepreneurship
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  • Sources

    • found: Work cat.: Davis, G.W. Policy entrepreneurship, 1999:p. 17 (two models of policy entrepreneurship, a "conventional economic" model based on economic theory and an "amended model" derived from a "public idea" conception)
    • found: Leadership and innovation : a biographical perspective on entrepreneurs in government, c1987:p. 352 (political entrepreneurship)
    • found: Lewis, E. Public entrepreneurship, c1980:p. 9 (public entrepreneur, a person who creates or profoundly elaborates a public organization so as to alter greatly the pattern of allocation of resources)
    • found: New strategic perspectives on social policy, c1981:p. 91 (policy innovation in a loosely coupled system requires the intervention of a politicial entrepreneur; policy entrepreneur)
    • found: ProQuest search, May 10, 2002(policy entrepreneurs, people who seek to initiate dynamic policy change by winning support for ideas for policy innovation; policy entrepreneurship; political entrepreneurship; public entrepreneurship)
    • notfound: The Blackwell encyclopaedia of political institutions, c1987;Chandler, R.C. The public administration dictionary, c1982;The fast times political dictionary via WWW, May 10, 2002;Hill, K. Real life dictionary of American politics, c1994;Kruschke, E.R. The public policy dictionary, c1987;Safire, W. Safire's new political dictionary, c1993
  • General Notes

    • Here are entered works on the practice by political officials or employees of winning support from within a government for change either in public policy or in the allocation of public resources.
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  • Change Notes

    • 2002-07-11: new
    • 2002-08-13: revised
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