Description
Book SynopsisIts lessons will enrich debate among scholars and inform policymakers and career administrators.
Trade Review"Manuel Teodoro offers a whole new way of thinking about the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, tying the urge to innovate with career ambition. This book breaks new ground, and does so with an effective blending of new theorizing and new empirical work. This is sound scholarship that is original and exciting." (Michael Mintrom, author of People Skills for Policy Analysts and Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice)"
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgments
1. Principles, Principals, and Ambition: The Politics of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship
2. Glorious Heroes, Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes: How Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)
3. A Theory of Bureaucratic Ambition: Why Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)
4. The Market for Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Career Path and Professional Innovation
5. The Psychology of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Human Motivation and Political Advocacy
6. Ramps and Ladders: How Career Systems Foster or Inhibit Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship
7. What Bureaucratic Ambition Means for Democracy
Appendix A: Survey Methodology
Appendix B: Supplementary Regression Analysis Results
Notes
References
Index
