 Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choicereviewed by Frederick M. Hess - 2002  Title: Policy Entrepreneurs and School ChoiceAuthor(s): Michael Mintrom Publisher: Georgetown University Press, Washington, DC ISBN: 0878407707, Pages: 324, Year: 2000 Search for book at Amazon.com Michael Mintrom has provided a thoughtful book on policy entrepreneurs and the role they played in shaping the fate of choice-based school reform during the late 1980s and early 1990s. Mintrom pays particular attention to the role of policy entrepreneurs in advancing the cause of charter schooling, a topic of obvious and widespread interest to education scholars. While the volume’s primary theoretical contribution is intended for a political science audience, both the implications of the theoretical work and the substantive analysis are likely to prove useful for readers interested in education policy and the substantive issues of choice-based school reform. Mintrom suggests we can best understand policy entrepreneurs—those individuals who help to market and disseminate policy reforms—by seeing them as analogous to private sector entrepreneurs. These individuals play a crucial role in shaping public policy debates and outcomes, in education as elsewhere. While American education has historically been the scene of one reform effort after another, the questions of who advocates education reforms, why they pursue them, and to... (preview truncated at 150 words.) To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropriate membership. Please review your options below:
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