Entrepreneurship in the Polis Understanding Political Entrepreneurship
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Biographical note
Inga NarbutaitĂ© Aflaki is a senior lecturer at Karlstad University in Karlstad, Sweden. She holds a PhD in Political Science from Karlstad University. Her research focuses on implementation studies within Public Policy field and policy entrepreneurship processes especially using bottom up approach. Evangelia Petridou has a background in public administration and Ancient Greek. She received her MPA from Missouri State University and is currently a PhD student in Political Science at Mid-Sweden University in Ăâstersund, Sweden. Lee Miles is Professor of International Relations (IR) at Loughborough University, UK and also holds a Professorship in Political Science at Karlstad University, Sweden. Lee has written extensively on the foreign policies of the Nordic Countries, the politics of European integration and Foreign Policy Analysis (FPA).âWith contributions from established and emerging scholars, this volume meets all the requirements of research excellence. It is original, devising a concise model for explaining the role of political entrepreneurship in policy change as well as factors that potentially influence political entrepreneurship. This study is also rigorous, covering, in some depth, domestic and foreign policy case study topics ranging from stem cell research to the pre-emptive strike of the US against Iraq. Above all, this is a significant book offering fresh insights into political entrepreneurship and the relationship between agency and structure. I cannot recommend this volume highly enough.â Gordon Cumming, Cardiff University, UK âIn this path-breaking work, three scholars, Inga NarbutaitĂ© Aflaki, Evangelia Petridou and Lee Miles, revive the important and often forgotten concept of political entrepreneurship, and apply the concept to a broader political context. Taking a comparative approach, the authors utilize political entrepreneurship to better understand policy change, exploring various outcomes of entrepreneurial actions and strategies. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in political leadership, public policy, and comparative leadership. The authors do a great job defining the concept of political entrepreneurship and showing its relevancy in the twenty-first century.â JosĂ© de ArimatĂ©ia da Cruz, Armstrong State University, USA