[governance] individuals

[Meryem Marzouki]

Ah.
Google.com has spoken. Let me shut up then, and apologize if citing  
one name was actually a swearword:)
Not to mention that Googlefight(.com too) declares the policy  
entrepreneurship as the winner (with 44,200,000 results) over the  
issue entrepreneurship (with only 17,000,000 results).
Despite its numerous references, it hasn't been shown yet that the  
issue/policy entrepreneurship is a model of CS collective  
organization (which is the one discussed here re: IGC organizational  
form), rather than a concept identifying very small, niche market  
oriented, particular kind of businesses.

Best,
Meryem

Le 28 avr. 06 à 02:57, Gurstein, Michael a écrit :

>
> Meryem,
>
> Google.com has 50,000 + references to "policy entrepreneurs"! ...  
> The first two of which provide the following definitions...
>
> The policy community has seen the gradual development of a third  
> dimension, composed of non-academic and even some academic experts,  
> former government employees, journalists and lobbyists. Unlike the  
> academics, the policy entrepreneurs' interest in the issue is not  
> intellectual, nor is their objective the advancement of knowledge.  
> They are primarily driven by a policy preference, which they seek  
> to impose on the policy-making process. They bring a composite of  
> concern, professionalism and ideological activism to bear on this  
> task. M. A. Muqtedar Khan, Policy Entrepreneurs: The Third  
> Dimension in American Foreign-policy Culture
>
> Policy entrepreneurs can be defined as organisations that take  
> advantage of windows of opportunity opened by other policy actors,  
> for instance specific policy programmes. They are in constant  
> search for possible problems for which they can offer a solution  
> (Kingdon 1984; Majone, Tame et al. 1996). Markus Perkmann, Policy  
> entrepreneurs, multilevel governance and policy networks in the  
> European polity: The case of the EUREGIO.
>
> MG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: governance-bounces at lists.cpsr.org [mailto:governance- 
> bounces at lists.cpsr.org] On Behalf Of Meryem Marzouki
> Sent: April 28, 2006 1:51 AM
> To: governance at lists.cpsr.org
> Subject: Re: [governance] individuals
>
>
>
> Le 27 avr. 06 à 23:57, Gurstein, Michael a écrit :
>
>> The introduction of a "market" model where influencing policy is
>> not a matter of creating coalitions and "politiking" but rather
>> where policy entrepreneurs identify an idea, marshall resources
>> around the idea (access grant funds for example) and then market
>> the Heck out of it with the "winner" taking the "prizes" and
>> everybody else licking their wounds is I think, something new on
>> the international scene (and particularly for CS) but of course it
>> is precisely how the game is played in the US policy (including
>> both the for and not for profit lobbyist) marketplace.
>
> Perhaps we're not talking about the same thing..
> Are you referring here to what Phil Agre calls "issue
> entrepreneurship" ? If so, then it's different from what "The new
> spirit of capitalism" analyzes, which is the new forms of work
> organization and management, and their isomorphisms with new forms of
> activism.
> I wouldn't call the former a "model" (I would be tempted to call it
> an - unfortunately unavoidable - parasitic epiphenomenon, if only it
> wasn't less and less "epi": increasing, yet not becoming a "model"
> only because of that... Game of the day: identify at least three
> internet governance entrepreneurs on this list:)). The latter is
> indeed a model which organizational form is the network (though not
> characterized only by its form of organization).
>
> Meryem
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