Entrepreneurship in the Polis

Inga Narbutaité 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 Östersund, 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).

’With 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.’ Gordon Cumming, Cardiff University, UK ’In this path-breaking work, three scholars, Inga Narbutaité 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.’ José de Arimatéia da Cruz, Armstrong State University, USA

• Chapter 1 Unpacking the Theoretical Boxes of Political Entrepreneurship, Evangelia Petridou, Inga Narbutaité Aflaki, Lee Miles; Chapter 2 The Networks of Political Entrepreneurs: A Case Study of Swiss Climate Policy, Karin Ingold, Dimitris Christopoulos; Chapter 3 Policy Entrepreneurs Meeting Mediators—a Conceptual Extension, Elin Wihlborg; Chapter 4 City Planners as Political Entrepreneurs: Do They Exist; Can They Exist?, Dimitri Ioannides; Chapter 5 Setting the Policy Agenda: A Policy Entrepreneurial Perspective on Urban Development in the Netherlands, Simon Verduijn; Chapter 6 The Role of Policy Entrepreneurs in Regional Governance Processes, Michael Böcher; Chapter 7 Political Entrepreneurs and Institutional Change: Governability, Liberal Political Culture, and the 1992 Electoral Reform in Israel, Assaf Meydani; Chapter 8 Policy Entrepreneurs and Morality Politics: Learning from Failure and Success, Michael MIntroductionm; Chapter 9 Regional Autonomy and Political Entrepreneurship, Pär M. Olausson; Chapter 10 1This chapter is based upon a paper presented at a dedicated panel of the Scandinavian Politics Specialist Group of the Political Studies Association (PSA) annual conference in Cardiff, UK (March 27, 2013), and a further paper given at a dedicated workshop held at Mid-Sweden University, Östersund, Sweden (September 2013). The chapter also builds upon some of the conceptual ideas developed in another book chapter examining the Danish case published in 2014 (see )., Lee Miles; Chapter 11 How Do Entrepreneurs Make National Security Policy? A Case Study of the G.W. Bush Administration, Charles-Philippe David; Chapter 12 Innovators for the Public—How Norm and Social Entrepreneurs Fulfill the Promises of Democracy, Lena Partzsch; Chapter 13 The Opportunity Structures of Cambodian French Institutional Entrepreneurs: A Study on Returnees’ Contributions to Transformative Change, Gea D.M. Wijers; Chapter 14 Political Entrepreneurship Redux: Looking to the Future, Inga Narbutaité Aflaki, Evangelia Petridou, Lee Miles;