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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"policy entrepreneur"”.
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Choosing green over gray : Philadelphia's innovative stormwater infrastructure plan
… particularly for a cash-strapped city; (2) a policy entrepreneur in the Philadelphia Water Department did two key things in preparation for a future policy window: he created an office organized around watersheds, and began redefining the problem; and (3) the policy entrepreneur capitalized on …
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Transit preferential treatment : a public policy-making perspective
… achieved their implementation through particular policymaking processes; moreover the generalization of these types of policies has been very limited. The objectives of this thesis are to apply the three models from the agenda-building theory (Mobilization, Inside Access and Outside Initiative) to …
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The dynamics of policy change in dominant subsystems: Colorado, Oregon, and the politics of growth
… and major change in the output of long-stable policy monopolies has been studied for several decades. A variety of political scientists have sought to identify the crucial dynamics involved when this type of change occurs (Bosso. 1987; Baumgartner and Jones, 1993; Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith. …
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The Monroe County Intermediate School District: A case study
… has evolved into a local and state public policy entrepreneur.</p> <p>• The dominant conflict this researcher found is that which exists between centralized versus local control. The question of who decides about educational matters has been the primary source of educational conflict.</p> …
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Jean Chrétien: policy etrepreneur : a case study of the 2002 G8 summit in Kananaskis, Alberta
… the G8. This thesis adapts John Kingdon’s public policy model, the Multiple Streams model, to analyze Canadian foreign policy. It studies how and why African development rose to the top of the agenda for Canada and the G8 in the early 2000s. It illustrates how Prime Minister Chrétien became a …
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The consolidation of Ypsilanti Public and Willow Run Community Schools: Lessons learned and policy considerations
… study was to understand the lessons learned and policy considerations from the successful vote to consolidate the Ypsilanti Public and Willow Run Community Schools. In the past thirty years, only four consolidations have been approved by voters in Michigan; and at least nine consolidation …
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Sustainable cities and institutional change : the transformation of urban stormwater management
… stringent National Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Policy. Yet whether or not a city adopts GSI to control CSOs it is a function of three things: the structure of municipal water management and infrastructure, which I term the "legacy system;" the existence of an effective change agent or "policy …
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What influences government policymaking? The case of childhood obesity in England
Abstract What influences government policymaking? The case of childhood obesity in England | Dolly Rose Zarina Theis In England today, four out of the top five risk factors of healthy life years lost to death, disability and disease are related to diet and physical activity. The government has …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… thesis is primarily concerned with how and why policy entrepreneurs succeed in promoting their ideas or policy proposals. In examining this, the thesis uses the case of Indonesia’s foreign and domestic policies regarding the protection of its own migrant workers who work abroad, particularly …
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The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Indonesia's Foreign Policy
… thesis is primarily concerned with how and why policy entrepreneurs succeed in promoting their ideas or policy proposals. In examining this, the thesis uses the case of Indonesia’s foreign and domestic policies regarding the protection of its own migrant workers who work abroad, particularly …
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The Development of the Children’s Centre Programme in England: the importance of context in understanding policy development and implementation
… that a wide range of factors interact to enable policy change at national level but a small number of authors have also used the model at local level showing that the range of factors that impact on the local implementation of a policy are also many and varied. One of the most well know aspects …
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Vetenskaplig osäkerhet i policyprocessen : En studie av svensk klimatpolitik
… is about scientific uncertainty in the policy process, that is when scientific knowledge about an issue is lacking or the existing knowledge is uncertain. The aim of the study is to understand if and how scientific uncertainty affects the policy process. For that purpose, the development …