The Revolutionary Power of Peripheral Agencies: Explaining Radical Policy Innovation in Finland and Israel

被引:61
作者
Breznitz, Dan [1 ]
Ornston, Darius [2 ]
机构
[1] Georgia Inst Technol, Scheller Coll Business, Atlanta, GA 30308 USA
[2] Univ Georgia, Dept Int Affairs, Athens, GA 30602 USA
关键词
policy innovation; industrialization; comparative political economy of development; developmental state; innovation policy; Finland; Israel; HORIZONTAL TECHNOLOGY POLICIES; STATE; GROWTH;
D O I
10.1177/0010414012472466
中图分类号
D0 [政治学、政治理论];
学科分类号
0302 ; 030201 ;
摘要
This article challenges the long-standing emphasis in the developmental state literature on the powerful pilot agency as an essential component of industrialization. Although a pilot agency may be able to facilitate growth in mature industries, we argue that policy makers seeking to promote rapid innovation-based competition must instead rely on continuous, radical policy innovation. We argue that this kind of experimentation is more likely to occur at the periphery of the public sector, in agencies with few hard resources and limited political prestige. In addition to providing a novel interpretation of how states enter new, high-technology markets, we explain why some successful countries become less innovative over time. As agencies successfully introduce radical policy innovations, their higher profile exposes them to greater political interference and reduces their entrepreneurial capacity. The argument is supported by within-case analysis of two historically low-technology economies that successfully promoted rapid innovation-based growth, Finland and Israel.
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页码:1219 / 1245
页数:27
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