Overview
- 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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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.
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Theorizing Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change
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Explorations in Institutional Entrepreneurship
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
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).
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).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Institutional Entrepreneurship and Policy Change
Book Subtitle: Theoretical and Empirical Explorations
Editors: Caner Bakir, Darryl S. L. Jarvis
Series Title: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-70350-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-70349-7Published: 01 March 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-09949-7Published: 02 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-70350-3Published: 19 February 2018
Series ISSN: 2524-7441
Series E-ISSN: 2524-745X
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 313
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Asian Politics, European Politics, Middle Eastern Politics, International Political Economy