Policy Entrepreneurs in Public Administration: A Social Network Analysis
| Autor: | Per Becker, Evangelia Petridou, Jörgen Sparf |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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021110 strategic
defence & security studies social network analysis Sociology and Political Science Salience (language) Flood myth Public Administration Studies Studier av offentlig förvaltning business.industry 05 social sciences Risk governance 0211 other engineering and technologies 02 engineering and technology Public administration Social issues Policy entrepreneurs 0506 political science flood risk mitigation Political Science and International Relations Credibility 050602 political science & public administration business Social network analysis Senior management Risk management |
| Zdroj: | Politics & Policy. 49:414-445 |
| ISSN: | 1747-1346 1555-5623 |
| Popis: | This article examines the role of policy entrepreneurs in promoting change in flood risk mitigation at the local level in Sweden through a comparative study of two Swedish municipalities with different approaches to flood risk governance; as a technical issue or a social issue. The municipality in which flood risk mitigation is addressed as a social issue exhibits a larger size of the network mitigating flood risk, more diverse actors involved, and a more central location of the politicians and senior management. Moreover, the analysis points to the salience of a bureaucratic policy entrepreneur in promoting this shift toward addressing it as a social issue, and shows how they use relational strategies to frame the issue as relating to climate change action. The article operationalizes sociability and credibility, two of the attributes of policy entrepreneurs, and thus, contributes to the theoretical and methodological discussion of policy entrepreneurs in general, and as they pertain to environmental policy in particular. (Less) |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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