ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN THE POLIS
The Ashgate Plus Series in International Relations and Politics
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Entrepreneurship in the Polis
Understanding Political Entrepreneurship
Edited by
INGA NARBUTAIT AFLAKI
Karlstad University, Sweden
EVANGELIA PETRIDOU
Mid-Sweden University, Sweden
LEE MILES
Loughborough University, UK
and Karlstad University, Sweden
First published 2015 by Ashgate Publishing
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Entrepreneurship in the polis : understanding political entrepreneurship / edited by Inga Narbutait Aflaki, Evangelia Petridou and Lee Miles.
pages cm. (The Ashgate plus series in international relations and politics)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-4724-2397-9 (hardback) 1. Political entrepreneurship. 2. Political entrepreneurshipCase studies. I. Aflaki, Inga Narbutait, editor of compilation. II. Petridou, Evangelia, editor of compilation. III. Miles, Lee, 1969 editor of compilation.
JF1525.P6E67 2014
320.6dc23
2014018235
ISBN 9781472423979 (hbk)
ISBN 9781315579931 (ebk)
Contents
Evangelia Petridou, Inga Narbutait Aflaki, and Lee Miles
Karin Ingold and Dimitris Christopoulos
Elin Wihlborg
Dimitri Ioannides
Simon Verduijn
Michael Bcher
Assaf Meydani
Michael Mintrom
Pr M. Olausson
Lee Miles
Charles-Philippe David
Lena Partzsch
Gea D.M. Wijers
Inga Narbutait Aflaki, Evangelia Petridou, and Lee Miles
List of Figures
List of Tables
Notes on Contributors
Michael Bcher is a senior researcher in the Forest and Nature Conservation Policy section, Faculty of Forest Sciences and Forest Ecology, University of Gttingen, Germany. His research interests include national and international environmental policy, nature conservation and forest policy, rural and regional governance, the role of science and expertise in political processes, and theories of the policy process and the role of policy entrepreneurs. He has been published in peer reviewed journals such as Forest Policy and Economics, Sociologia Ruralis and in several edited volumes.
Dimitris Christopoulos is Assistant Professor at MODUL University Vienna and Senior Visiting Fellow at CEPS, Luxembourg. He is engaged in research on regional elite social capital, cross-border policy networks, and political entrepreneurship and has a consistent interest in exceptional agency. He edits the journal Connections, chairs the UKSNA association and co-convenes the SNA group of ECPR. He has published with The Journal of European Public Policy, The Journal of Public Policy, European Urban and Regional Studies, and Regional and Federal Studies.
Charles-Philippe David is Professor of Political Science, Co-president of the Center for United States Studies, as well as of the Center for Geopolitical Studies, and Chair of Strategic and Diplomatic Studies at University of Qubec at Montral. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and was the recipient of the Jean Finot Award of the Institute of France in 2003. He was first to receive, in 2012, the George Vanier distinguished award from the Royal Military College of Canada for his scholarly contribution to the advancement of strategic and security studies. Dr. David received his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1986 (under the supervision of Robert S. Gilpin). Professor David is a specialist on American foreign policy decision making, nuclear strategy, security studies, armed conflict, and peace missions. He has published extensively in English as well as in French.
Karin Ingold is Assistant Professor at the University of Bern, Switzerland. She is affiliated with the Oeschger Center of Climate Change Research and is head of the Policy Analysis and Environmental Governance Cluster at the Institute of Political Science (UBern) and the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag). In her research, she focuses on policy process analysis and is interested in decision making and implementation in environmental and energy politics. She applies social network analysis and investigates the role of science and exceptional agents in policy making. She is a co-organizer of the international Conference of the Application of Social Network Analysis (ASNA) taking place at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Dimitri Ioannides is Professor of Human Geography at Mid-Sweden University and also Professor of Tourism Planning and Development at Missouri State University. He received his Ph.D. in Urban Planning and Policy Development from Rutgers University in 1994. Over the years he has published many pieces relating to the economic geography of tourism as well as tourism planning and sustainability. He is co-author, with Dallen Timothy, of Tourism in the USA: A Social and Spatial Synthesis (2012).
Assaf Meydani is Associate Professor in the School of Government and Society at the Academic College of Tel Aviv, Yaffo, Israel. His research interests include public policy, politics and law and political economy. He has been a visiting scholar at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, at the University of California, Berkeley, at the University of Bologna, Italy, and at the University of Oxford, England. He is the author of several books and his articles have appeared in journals such as