How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur

This chapter compares different ways to think of entrepreneurship in policy analysis. The first is to identify the attributes, skills, and strategies that entrepreneurs need to succeed. The second is to qualify the success of entrepreneurship: most fail, and their success depends more on their environments than their skills.

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Cairney, P. (2021). How to Be a Policy Entrepreneur. In: The Politics of Policy Analysis. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66122-9_10

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