Agency Oriented Policy Entrepreneurs and the Sustainability of Digital Government Innovation——A Comparative Study of Multiple Cases Based on the Construction of the Middle Platform
Turnover in leadership is seen as a key factor affecting the sustainability of policy innovation.In re-cent years,various digital government innovations promoted in the form of"top tier projects"have emerged one after another.However,in the context of turnover in major leadership,the same type of digital government in-novation exhibits differentiated sustainability patterns in different regions.This article refers to the group of of-ficials entrusted by the main leaders to be responsible for the implementation of innovation projects as policy entrepreneurs as agents,and focuses on their strategy space in continuing policy innovation.Based on a com-parison of the construction practices of the middle platform in three regions,the study finds that:After the main leaders leave office,if policy entrepreneurs as agents can optimize the perception of specific attributes of exist-ing policy innovation by new leaders and other departments through effective action strategies,and successfully mobilize resources at the formal level of the organization and informal resources from other departments,exist-ing policy innovation will gain space for deepening development;When policy entrepreneurs successfully mobi-lize informal resources from other departments to fill the resource gap caused by the shift of leadership atten-tion to existing policy innovation,even if they fail to gain recognition from new leaders and mobilize resources at the formal level of the organization,the original innovation can still maintain its operation;When policy en-trepreneurs have not successfully mobilized informal resources from other departments or received formal re-source support from the organization,their original policy innovation will be difficult to sustain.
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