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Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

Theoretical and Empirical Explorations

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Editors:
  1. Caner Bakir

    1. Department of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

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  2. Darryl S. L. Jarvis

    1. Feculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

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  • 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

Part of the book series: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy (PEPP)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xix
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  2. Institutional and Policy Change: Meta-theory and Method

    • Caner Bakir, D. S. L. Jarvis
    Pages 1-38

  3. Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 39-39
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    2. Enablers and Time: How Context Shapes Entrepreneurship in Institutional and Policy Change

      • Maria Tullia Galanti
      Pages 41-61

    3. Institutional Change Through Institutionalization: Combining Different Approaches

      • Luciana de Oliveira Miranda, Paulo Carlos Du Pin Calmon
      Pages 63-84

    4. The New Economic, Sociological and Historical Institutionalisms in Social Policy

      • José G. Vargas-Hernández, Victor Manuel Castillo-Girón
      Pages 85-109

  4. Explorations in Institutional Entrepreneurship

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 111-111
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    2. Local Policy Entrepreneurship in Authoritarian China: The Case of a “Model” Health Care Reform

      • Alex Jingwei He
      Pages 113-138

    3. Political Entrepreneurship and Policy Change in the End of Life Debate in Israel

      • Michal Neubauer-Shani, Omri Shamir
      Pages 139-161

    4. Institutional Entrepreneurship in Education Policy: Societal Transformation in Israel

      • Netta Sagie, Miri Yemini
      Pages 163-190

    5. The Effects of Institutional Change on Austrian Integration Policy and the Contexts that Matter

      • Oliver Gruber, Sieglinde Rosenberger
      Pages 191-220

    6. Embedding Innovation: Bricolage and the Case of the Phnom Penh Water Supply Authority

      • Yishu Zhou, Leong Ching
      Pages 221-242

    7. Institutional Entrepreneurship and the Mission Creep of the National Bank of Hungary

      • Miklós Sebők
      Pages 243-278

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 279-313
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About this book

This book is about the role of agents in policy and institutional change. It draws on cross-country case studies. The focus on ‘agency’ has been an important development, enabling researchers to better reveal the causal mechanisms generating institutional change (i.e., how institutional change actually takes place). However, past research has generally been limited to specific intellectual silos or scholarly domains of inquiry. Policy scholars, for example, have tended to focus on the various mechanisms and levels at which agency operates, drawing on institutionalist perspectives but not always actively contributing to institutionalist theory. Institutionalist perspectives, by contrast, have tended to operate at macro-levels of enquiry, embracing the ontological primacy of institutions in processes of isomorphism but not necessarily contributing to or embracing policy perspectives that engage in more granular analyses of policy making processes, implementation, and the instantiation ofinstitutional and policy change. Despite the obvious complementarities of these two intellectual traditions, it is surprising how little collaborative work, or indeed cross fertilization of theory and analytical design has occurred. The core novelty of this volume is thus its focus on agential actors within institutional settings and processes of entrepreneurship that facilitate isomorphism and policy change. The book’s theoretical framework is grounded in variants of institutional theory, especially historical, sociological and organisational institutionalism and policy entrepreneurship literature. The overall conclusion is that that both institutionalists and public policy scholars have largely overlooked the importance of complex interactions between interdependent structures, institutions, and agents in processes of institutional and policy change.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of International Relations, Koç University, Istanbul, Turkey

    Caner Bakir

  • Feculty of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    Darryl S. L. Jarvis

About the editors

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).

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