Swedish migration policy liberalization and new immigrant entrepreneurs

Financial Liberalization and Policy Challenges

An exploration of the theoretical concepts policy windows and policy entrepreneurs at the Swedish public health arena.

In John Kingdon's Policy Streams Approach policy formation is described as the result of the flow of three 'streams', the problem stream, the policy stream and the politics stream. When these streams couple, a policy window opens which facilitate policy change. Actors who promote specific solutions are labelled policy entrepreneurs. The aim of this study was to test the applicability of the Pol...

Entrepreneurs and new ideas

We take the view (advanced, among others, by Schumpeter) that new ideas are original combinations of existing elements. While many random combinations are useless, some represent combinations which ”...t” together, aggregating di¤erent components in a novel and functional way. Thus, in order to appraise an innovative idea it is necessary to have specialized experts examine whether each of its d...

Migration Networks and Immigrant Entrepreneurship

Migration network theory addresses the cumulative causation of migration as a result of reduced social, economic, and emotional costs of migration pursuant to the formation of migration networks. Because it introduces a sociological dimension, network theory improves the mechanical and economistic “push and pull” conceptions that prevailed earlier, including world systems versions thereof. None...

Economists, policy entrepreneurs, and health care reform.

Economists would have formulated several aspects of the health care reform debate differently than policy entrepreneurs did. Economists would have questioned whether health care costs must be contained and whether either competition or global budgets were a "magic bullet" for doing so. They also would have emphasized the distortive costs of subsidies and taxes necessary to reach universal cover...