What lessons can we learn from 40 years of policy entrepreneurship scholarship on policy
entrepreneurs' strategies and defining characteristics? While scholars have offered …

Public policy scholars have stressed the importance and need for “comparing” since the
1970s—including comparing different policies, inputs, outputs, and outcomes across …

Research on policy entrepreneurs typically identifies these individuals as high-level
government officials or actors who lobby such elites, largely ignoring low-rung bureaucrats …

Under what conditions will street‐level bureaucrats act as policy entrepreneurs? Drawing on
the case of social workers working with disadvantaged populations in the context of urban …

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

Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who champion a policy and engage in intense advocacy
to secure it—are most frequently characterized as political elites or individuals well …

Imposing significant challenges for both street‐level implementation and policy (re) design,
crises alter the environment for street‐level policy entrepreneurship (SLPE), wherein street …

The neurodiversity movement takes an identity politics approach to autism spectrum
disorders, proposing autism spectrum disorders as a positive “neuro-variation” to be …

Street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) can act as policy entrepreneurs to cope with the dilemmas
in policy implementation. However, there is insufficient knowledge about whether the …

The social movement surrounding autism in the US has been rightly defined a ray of light in
the history of social progress. The movement is inspired by a true understanding of neuro …