Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

Focusses on agential actors within institutional settings and processes of entrepreneurship that facilitate isomorphism and policy change
Draws together country case studies from China, Israel, Hungary, Chile and Austria
Appeals to students and scholars of Public Policy, Political Science, Public Administration and Political Economy

Autorentext
Caner Bakir is Associate Professor of Political Science, with a special focus on International and Comparative Political Economy, and Public Policy and Administration at Koc University, Istanbul, Turkey.
Darryl S.L. Jarvis is Professor of Global Studies, Faculty of Liberal Studies and Social Sciences at the Education University of Hong Kong (formally the Hong Kong Institute of Education).

Inhalt
Chapter 1: Introduction: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change.- Chapter 2: Institutional Change through Institutionalisation: Combining Different Approaches.- Chapter 3: Policy Entrepreneurship in Authoritarian China: The Case of a Local Health Care Reform.- Chapter 4: To Die with Dignity? Political entrepreneurship and policy change in the 'Patient Nearing Death' issue in Israel.- Chapter 5: The Realm of Policy and Development Entrepreneurs and the Design of New Paradigms.- Chapter 6: The Sky is the Limit: Policy Entrepreneurship and the Mission Creep of the National Bank of Hungary.- Chapter 7: The politics of public prosecution and its gradual institutional reform in Chile.- Chapter 8: Reflections on the Impact of the New Economic, Sociological and Historical Institutionalism in Institutional Social Policy.- Chapter 9: Has Education been Left Behind? Israeli Governmental Discourse about Entrepreneurship in the Education System.- Chapter 10: The effects of institutional change on Austrian Integration policy and the contexts that matter.- Chapter 11: Narratives as Agency: Entrepreneurial Inaction.- Chapter 12: Conclusion.