Schneider / Teske / Mintrom Public Entrepreneurs

Agents for Change in American Government
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2157-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

Seizing opportunities, inventing new products, transforming markets--entrepreneurs are an important and well-documented part of the private sector landscape. Do they have counterparts in the public sphere? The authors argue that they do, and test their argument by focusing on agents of dynamic political change in suburbs across the United States, where much of the entrepreneurial activity in American politics occurs. The public entrepreneurs they identify are most often mayors, city managers, or individual citizens. These entrepreneurs develop innovative ideas and implement new service and tax arrangements where existing administrative practices and budgetary allocations prove inadequate to meet a range of problems, from economic development to the racial transition of neighborhoods. How do public entrepreneurs emerge? How much does the future of urban development depend on them? This book answers these questions, using data from over 1,000 local governments.

The emergence of public entrepreneurs depends on a set of familiar cost-benefit calculations. Like private sector risk-takers, public entrepreneurs exploit opportunities emerging from imperfect markets for public goods, from collective-action problems that impede private solutions, and from situations where information is costly and the supply of services is uneven. The authors augment their quantitative analysis with ten case studies and show that bottom-up change driven by politicians, public managers, and other local agents obeys regular and predictable rules.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schneider, Mark

Teske, Paul

Mintrom, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftsgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

List of Tables

Ackowledgments

Pt. 1 A Theory of the Public Entrepreneur 1

Ch. 1 Public Entrepreneurs as Agents of Change 3

Ch. 2 Bringing Back the Entrepreneur: Neoclassical Economic Models and the Role of the Entrepreneur 17

Ch. 3 The Functions of Political Entrepreneurs in the Local Market for Public Goods 41

Pt. 2 The Decision Calculus of the Public Entrepreneur 61

Ch. 4 The Market for Entrepreneurs 63

Ch. 5 The Emergence of Political Entrepreneurs 81

Ch. 6 Entrepreneurs, Policy Dimensions, and the Politics of Growth 109

Ch. 7 Entrepreneurial Challenges to the Status Quo: The Case of the Growth Machine 128

Ch. 8 Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: The Case of City Managers 147

Pt. 3 The Milieux of the Public Entrepreneur 169

Ch. 9 The Business-Government Nexus in the Local Market for Entrepreneurs 171

Ch. 10 Entry, Voice, and Support for Entrepreneurs 185

Pt. 4 Entrepreneurs and Change in the Local Market for Public Goods 211

Ch. 11 Entrepreneurs and Change in the Local Market for Public Goods 213

Notes 223

Bibliography 239

Index 257

Über Autor(innen)

Mark Schneider is Professor of Political Science, and Paul Teske is Assistant Professor of Political Science, both at the State University of New York, Stony Brook. Michael Mintrom is an Assistant Professor of Political Science, with a joint appointment in the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research, at Michigan State University.