Transforming Public Policy shows how to influence and fundamentally redirect public policy through the strategic use of policy entrepreneurship and innovation. Using the example of a single in-depth study?public school choice in Minnesota?the authors provide specific guidelines for achieving large-scale system change. The case illustrates the entire process of entrepreneur-driven radical change by following the issue of public school choice from its beginning, as an innovative idea, through its four-year legislative process, to its implementation into practice within the Minnesota school system. Includes personal profiles of six change agents who worked toward this large-scale transformation and chronicles their activities, strategies, and tactics, providing an insightful analysis of what it takes to be a successful policy entrepreneur.
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"One of the truly delightful characteristics of Transforming Public Policy is that the authors successfully meld a book that is rich in theoretical development with one that is rich in practical advice for participants in the policy process. This is a rare and noteworthy combination." —Journal of Public Affairs Education
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Citizens are searching for new ways to participate more fully in the critical decisions that affect their lives. No longer content with incremental change, they seek to radically alter the course of public policy and restructure the government and its institutions. Transforming Public Policy shows how individuals can influence and fundamentally redirect public policy through the strategic use of policy entrepreneurship and innovation. Using the example of a single in-depth study?public school choice in Minnesota?the authors provide specific guidelines for achieving large-scale system change. The case illustrates the entire process of entrepreneur-driven radical change by following the issue of public school choice from its beginning, as an innovative idea, through its four-year legislative process, to its implementation into practice within the Minnesota school system. The book includes personal profiles of six change agents who worked toward this large-scale transformation and chronicles their activities, strategies, and tactics, providing an insightful analysis of what it takes to be a successful policy entrepreneur. Nancy Roberts and Paula King offer an understanding of radical change that is useful to practitioners, researchers, and policy scholars and they provide a wealth of recommAndations and information including:? A conceptual framework for understanding public entrepreneurship and innovation? A developmental model of change agentry? The advantage of team over individual entrepreneurship? The activities and strategies of an effective entrepreneurial team? Change heuristics that have stood the test of time The book concludes with a robust theory of radical change by design."When Minnesota enacted public school choice in the 1980s, it began a chain of events that will transform K?12 education in America. Transforming Public Policy tells how six dedicated policy entrepreneurs and a courageous governor accomplished that feat?and
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