Research, part of a Special Feature on Realizing Water Transitions: The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Water Policy Change Policy Entrepreneurs and Change Strategies: Lessons from Sixteen Case…
By S. Meijerink, D. Huitema. 2010
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This paper focuses on the role of policy entrepreneurs in realizing water policy transitions. The central questions are to what extent have policy entrepreneurs played a role in realizing major change in water policies, who are these policy entrepreneurs, and what strategies have they used to bring about change? The policy science literature suggests that policy entrepreneurs have an "arsenal" of possible strategies for achieving change. Based on a comparative analysis of water policy changes in 15 countries around the globe and the European Union, we investigate which strategies have in practice been used by policy entrepreneurs, to what effect, and which lessons for managing water transitions we can draw from this. The comparative case analysis shows that individuals play complementary roles; hence, entrepreneurship in water management is often collective entrepreneurship. Strategies of coalition building, the manipulation of decision making forums, and the strategic framing of issues and windows are crucial to understanding water policy change, which suggests that the management of water policy transitions is a highly political game. We conclude by listing recommendations for those who would like to direct water policy change.
Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Global and Planetary Change, Political Science and International Relations
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- Towards Adaptive Management: Examining the Strategies of Policy Entrepreneurs in Dutch Water Management (2011, background): “This is different from the national level (Meijerink and Huitema 2010).”
- The governance of adaptation: choices, reasons, and effects. Introduction to the Special Feature (2016, background): “…interest in ecosystems-based adaptation, an approach that moves away from a focus on infrastructure toward protecting natural processes and reinstating ecosystems to provide buffering and protection, including water and coastal processes (see, e.g., Vignola et al. 2009, Meijerink and Huitema 2010).”