Title: Political entrepreneurship and institutional change: an evolutionary perspective

Authors: Christian Hederer

Addresses: Federal Ministry of Economics and Labour, Stubenring 1, A-1011 Vienna, Austria; Witten/Herdecke University, Department of Economics and Management, A. Herrhausen-Strasse 50, D-58452 Witten, Germany

Abstract: The paper is a contribution to the theory of institutional change. Using a process-based, evolutionary framework, a comparative analysis of economic and political entrepreneurship is provided, and implications are derived for the role of political entrepreneurship and the element of agency in general, for the evolution of formal institutions and institutional innovation.

Keywords: political entrepreneurship; institutional innovation; market process theory; policy process; social systems evolution; institutional change; organisational change; economic entrepreneurship.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPP.2010.031208

International Journal of Public Policy, 2010 Vol.6 No.1/2, pp.87 - 103

Published online: 25 Jan 2010 *

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