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Policy Entrepreneurs, Issue Experts, and Water Rights Policy Change in Colorado

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Policy entrepreneurs can influence policy changes and decisions. These people invest their time, knowledge, and skills into promoting policies with which they agree. This paper investigates the influence that entrepreneurs had in the case of recreational water rights policy in Colorado to build a model of policy entrepreneurship. Almost 20 Colorado communities have constructed white‐water kayak courses to boost their local economies. In twelve of these communities, construction was followed by community pursuit of a new form of water right—the recreational in‐channel diversion. This case study is relevant to many areas of environmental policy and management where policies are transitioning from traditional consumptive uses of the resource to nonconsumptive uses. This policy change was not a given in Colorado communities, with recreational water rights requiring significant investments of community resources. These research findings conclude that policy entrepreneurs were influential to policy change, but the most important actors were expert entrepreneurs who hold expertise in water resource matters.

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  • Deserai Anderson Crow, 2010. "Policy Entrepreneurs, Issue Experts, and Water Rights Policy Change in Colorado," Review of Policy Research, Policy Studies Organization, vol. 27(3), pages 299-315, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:revpol:v:27:y:2010:i:3:p:299-315
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2010.00443.x
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