This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy
change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in …

This chapter reviews the dominant theories of government innovation in the public policy
literature. It shows that these theories borrow heavily from others developed to explain …

Innovation in public organizations is widely documented and has increasingly been the
subject of empirical scrutiny. This article integrates the empirical evidence of the internal and …

Over the last two decades many alternate theories of the policy process have been
developed. This essay covers recent scholarship (from 2008 to 2010) regarding the major …

The American democratic system of government is being put to its greatest test since the
Great Depression of the 1920s and 1930s, as the country endeavors to cope with the fallout …

Previous studies have identified institutional, organizational, and individual factors that
promote innovation in public organizations. Yet they have overlooked how the type of public …

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

This article builds theoretical linkages between the political mobility of local officials and the
dynamic diffusion of innovation in decentralized authoritarian China. We built two datasets …

This essay discusses how scholarship on state politics and policy, intergovernmental
relations, and federalism provides necessary context for understanding governmental …

Although scholars of policy diffusion have explored the effects of learning, competition, and
geographic proximity in the diffusion process, extant theories have not paid enough attention …