Three habits of successful policy entrepreneurs

By P. Cairney. Practical Lessons from Policy Theories, 2018

149 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Kingdon’s multiple streams approach is popular because its metaphor and flexible concepts can be applied empirically in most contexts. However, this feature is also its weakness. Most scholars apply MSA superficially, without describing its metaphor’s meaning or connecting concepts to empirical results. This article solves this problem by producing one MSA narrative from a diverse collection of empirical studies. Our hero is the ‘policy entrepreneur’ who knows that the pursuit of ambitious aims such as ‘evidence-based policymaking’ requires framing a problem, having a solution ready, and exploiting the motive and opportunity of policymakers to select it.

Subfields: Management Science and Operations Research, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

View Paper: https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/be64fdf652a3e5c9c58592fcd28d9e124d96692c

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

In Political Science and International Relations

1. David Monciardini
2. Oscar Fitch-Roy
3. D. Benson

Citations in the corpus

• Going around in circles? Conceptual recycling, patching and policy layering in the EU circular economy package (2019, background): “The circular economy concept then emerged more forcefully within global and national policy circles in the 2010s, advanced by ‘policy entrepreneurs’ (Kingdon 1984, p. 122, FitchRoy et al. 2018, see also Cairney 2018), such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (Cooper-Searle et al. 2018).”