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, and he draws important conclusions about how
innovative individuals can spur significant change in the policy
arena.
Policy entrepreneurs -- individuals who take up a cause and make
it part of the political agenda -- have largely remained background
figures without clear definition in the policymaking literature.
This book is the first comprehensive and systematic treatment of
the concept of policy entrepreneurship, providing an important
foundation for explaining how policy proposals are initiated,
considered, and adopted.
Mintrom uses the emergence of school choice in state politics to
examine how policy change originates. He shows how policy
entrepreneurs have been instrumental in placing school choice onto
state legislative agendas, despite the lack of compelling evidence
about its merits, and how they use social networks, reframe policy
issues, and attempt to shift the sites of policy debate.
Blending innovative theory with both qualitative and
quantitative investigation, Mintrom explains how energetic
individuals made school choice a real choice. In doing so, he
changes our broader understanding of how policy is formed.
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