LIST OF PANELS

Policy and Society, Special Issue Theoretical explanations and empirical research concerning the policy entrepreneurship in domestic policymaking have significantly enhanced our understanding of policy change. However, there are several weaknesses and understudied areas in regards to the role of agency in institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship. Specifically, when it comes to explaining institutional change, we have very limited knowledge on the agency of individual actors who initiate and implement institutional change in the various stages of domestic policymaking processes. This panel calls for a bridge building between state of the art in institutional theory and public policy theory with special reference to institutional entrepreneurship. It encourages conceptual and empirical contributions on (1) our conceptual understanding of institutional entrepreneurship and the various modes of institutional change; (2) similarities and differences in the concepts of policy entrepreneurs, ideational entrepreneurs, and institutional entrepreneurs; (3) structural, institutional and agency-level enabling conditions informing institutional entrepreneurship; and (4) a systematic approach that enhances qualitative rigor in inductive interpretive research on this topic (list is not exhaustive). Policy and Society, Special Issue Please indicate both in the email heading and on the full paper clearly that the submission is for  “Special Issue/Policy and Society”. Authors will be emailed the notification of panel acceptance before 15th February, 2015  and full papers for special issue considiration are due 22 June 2015.

Theoretical explanations and empirical research concerning the policy entrepreneurship in domestic policymaking have significantly enhanced our understanding of policy change. However, there are several weaknesses and understudied areas in regards to the role of agency in institutional change, institutional entrepreneurship. Specifically, when it comes to explaining institutional change, we have very limited knowledge on the agency of individual actors who initiate and implement institutional change in the various stages of domestic policymaking processes. This panel calls for a bridge building between state of the art in institutional theory and public policy theory with special reference to institutional entrepreneurship. It encourages conceptual and empirical contributions on (1) our conceptual understanding of institutional entrepreneurship and the various modes of institutional change; (2) similarities and differences in the concepts of policy entrepreneurs, ideational entrepreneurs, and institutional entrepreneurs; (3) structural, institutional and agency-level enabling conditions informing institutional entrepreneurship; and (4) a systematic approach that enhances qualitative rigor in inductive interpretive research on this topic (list is not exhaustive).