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Nancy C. Roberts
Researcher at Naval Postgraduate School
Publications - 38
Citations - 3044
Nancy C. Roberts is an academic researcher from Naval Postgraduate School. The author has contributed to research in topics: Entrepreneurship & Public policy. The author has an hindex of 17, co-authored 38 publications receiving 2865 citations. Previous affiliations of Nancy C. Roberts include Stanford University.
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Public deliberation in an age of direct citizen participation
TL;DR: For the first half of the 20th century, citizens relied on public officials and administrato... as mentioned in this paper, and for the first part of the 21st century, they relied on the private sector.
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Wicked Problems and Network Approaches to Resolution
TL;DR: Government officials and public managers are encountering a class of problems that defy solution, even with the authors' most sophisticated analytical tools.
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Policy Entrepreneurs: Their Activity Structure and Function in the Policy Process
Nancy C. Roberts,Paula J. King +1 more
TL;DR: Public entrepreneurship is the process of introducing innovation, the generation, translation, and implementation of new ideas into the public sector as mentioned in this paper, and policy entrepreneurs are public entrepreneurs who, from outside the formal positions of government, introduce, translate, and help implement new ideas in public practice.
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Keeping Public Officials Accountable through Dialogue: Resolving the Accountability Paradox
TL;DR: In this paper, a brief description of dialogue and its basic features, distinguishing it from other forms of communication, is given, and it is argued that dialogue can resolve the accountability paradox and avoid the atrophy of personal responsibility and political authority.
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Stakeholder Collaboration and Innovation: A Study of Public Policy Initiation at the State Level:
TL;DR: In this paper, a field study was conducted to determine whether diverse, competing stakeholders in a domain can use collaboration to intentionally initiate innovative public policy affecting that domain, and the results reveal that the stakeholders did collaborate to initiate public policy.