This paper reviews historical and existing drought and water policy in Australia in order to
gain a sense of the strengths and weaknesses in enabling effective adaptation to climate …

A transition to sustainable energy will require not only technological diffusion and behavioral
change, but also policy innovation. While research on energy transitions has generated an …

Policy entrepreneurs are thought to be instrumental in agenda change, yet we lack
knowledge of how legislators perceive their role in the agenda formation process. Using …

When a major policy change occurs, policy entrepreneurs—advocates who devote
substantial time, energy, and resources to campaigning for a specific policy outcome—are …

Scholars have spent decades arguing that policy entrepreneurs, change agents who work
individually and in groups to influence the policy process, can be crucial in introducing …

Well‐resourced and well‐connected individuals, or “policy entrepreneurs,” often play an
important role in advocating and securing the adoption of policies. There is a striking lack of …

Although policy entrepreneurship is essential for fostering policy innovations to achieve
sustainable development, the literature has conflated different types of entrepreneurship and …

In the book Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies, John Kingdon (1984 [1995]) defined
policy entrepreneurs as actors who: are not necessarily found in any one location in the …

The need to accelerate the climate adaptation process has become increasingly evident as
devastating climate impacts are more widely experienced, but climate action remains …

Policy entrepreneurship is often used to explain agenda setting through reference to the
behavior of individual “change agents.” But there are still gaps in our understanding of what …