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Formalized Policy Entrepreneurship as a Governance Tool for Policy Integration

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  • Petra Svensson

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Policy entrepreneurs and their role for policy change, policy integration and cross-cutting governance has been thoroughly investigated. Here, focus is on a previously neglected aspect of policy entrepreneurship: the tendency to employ public bureaucrats with formal positions to act as policy entrepreneurs for policy integration. Based on 34 interviews with these actors in the Swedish local and regional government, three versions of this formalized policy entrepreneurship are identified: Informal compensation for formal vertical flaws, Making others do things and Integration in the vertical formal organization. These versions of formalized policy entrepreneurship brings a deeper understanding to the development of governance for policy integration, and also to the policy entrepreneurial role in the political-administrative organization.

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  • Petra Svensson, 2019. "Formalized Policy Entrepreneurship as a Governance Tool for Policy Integration," International Journal of Public Administration, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 42(14), pages 1212-1221, October.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:lpadxx:v:42:y:2019:i:14:p:1212-1221
    DOI: 10.1080/01900692.2019.1590401
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    1. Esther Salvi & Frank-Martin Belz & Sophie Bacq, 2023. "Informal Entrepreneurship: An Integrative Review and Future Research Agenda," Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, , vol. 47(2), pages 265-303, March.
    2. Katharina Rietig & Claire Dupont, 2021. "Presidential leadership styles and institutional capacity for climate policy integration in the European Commission [Climate policy integration: A case of déjà vu?]," Policy and Society, Darryl S. Jarvis and M. Ramesh, vol. 40(1), pages 19-36.

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