This is an introductory paper to a special issue on climate governance entrepreneurship,
where entrepreneurship is understood as acts performed by actors seeking to 'punch above …

How and with what effect policy entrepreneurship occurs is a persistent and intriguing
question for scholars of public policy and administration and political science. So far, the …

Research on policy entrepreneurs typically identifies these individuals as high-level
government officials or actors who lobby such elites, largely ignoring low-rung bureaucrats …

Turkey has been experiencing a controversial path of Europeanization by the 1999 Helsinki
Summit granting EU candidate country status to the country: a changing trend from …

Government interest in wellbeing as an explicit goal of public policy has increased
significantly in recent years, leading to new developments in measuring wellbeing and …

Policy entrepreneurs—individuals who champion a policy and engage in intense advocacy
to secure it—are most frequently characterized as political elites or individuals well …

Well-being has recently risen rapidly up the political agenda in Britain and beyond, signalled
most clearly by Prime Minister Cameron's announcement in 2010 that well-being measures …

Turkish foreign policy activism during the last decade has attracted widespread international
attention. As a result, scholarly literature on the issue has expanded noticeably. If one makes …

The policy process frameworks and theories that are currently considered mainstream were
originally developed in the United States, before traveling to other countries. Despite their …

Policy entrepreneurs are individuals who exploit opportunities to influence policy outcomes
to increase their self-interests–without having the necessary resources required for …