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Policy entrepreneurs and school choice / Michael Mintrom.
Van Pelt Library LB1027.9 .M57 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mintrom, Michael, 1963-
- Series:
- American governance and public policy
- American governance and public policy series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School choice--United States.
- School choice.
- United States.
- Education and state--United States.
- Education and state.
- Policy sciences.
- Physical Description:
- xi, 324 pages ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, DC : Georgetown University Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- Rapid and controversial, the spread of school choice initiatives across the United States has radically changed political debate about public education. In this book, Michael Mintrom explores the complex world of open-enrollment policies, charter schools, and voucher plans to reveal how and why school choice has become a major issue.
- Mintrom uses the emergence of school choice in state politics to examine how policy change originates. In the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of the concept of policy entrepreneurship, he draws important conclusions about how innovative individuals -- policy entrepreneurs -- can spur significant change in the policy arena. Blending original theory with both qualitative and quantitative investigation, Mintrom explains how energetic people made school choice a real choice. In doing so, he changes our broader understanding of how policy is formed.
- Contents:
- 1 Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice 1
- 2 Explanations of Policy Change 35
- 3 Entrepreneurs and the Market Process 70
- 4 Aspects of Entrepreneurship 88
- 5 Policy Entrepreneurs and the Policymaking Process 113
- 6 Empirical Studies of Policy Entrepreneurship 158
- 7 Policy Entrepreneurs and State Adoption of School Choice 182
- 8 Policy Networks and the Diffusion of School Choice 209
- 9 Policy Argumentation, Coalition Building, and School Choice 227
- 10 Policy Demonstration Projects and School Choice 252
- 11 Policy Entrepreneurs and Policy Change 267
- Appendix The Survey Questionnaire 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [301]-315) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0878407707
- 0878407715
- OCLC:
- 41871027
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