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Policy Entrepreneurship in Government: An American Study

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This essay contrasts the careers of Robert Ball and Wilbur Cohen, two American public administrators who have devoted fifty years to America's social insurance institutions, with other types of public actors, especially the in and outer rising spirally across departments, policies and administrations. America's separation of powers and federalism reward with influence those who combine entrepreneurial energy, long-term program commitment, and managerial skill; other political structures provide different patterns of opportunities and constraints. It then applies this perspective to Ball and Cohen's participation in three periods of American social policy history: the formation of federal social insurance policy (1935 to 1950); the expansion period (1950–1970); and the turbulent period of stagflation and fiscal stress (1972 to the present).

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  • Marmor, Theodore R., 1986. "Policy Entrepreneurship in Government: An American Study," Journal of Public Policy, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(3), pages 225-253, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cup:jnlpup:v:6:y:1986:i:03:p:225-253_00
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    1. Luc BERNIER & Louis SIMARD, 2007. "The Governance Of Public Enterprises: The Quebec Experience," Annals of Public and Cooperative Economics, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 78(3), pages 455-474, September.
    2. Harald Sætren, 2016. "From controversial policy idea to successful program implementation: the role of the policy entrepreneur, manipulation strategy, program design, institutions and open policy windows in relocating Norw," Policy Sciences, Springer;Society of Policy Sciences, vol. 49(1), pages 71-88, March.

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