Manuel P. Teodoro is an assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Principles, Principals, and Ambition: The Politics of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship2. Glorious Heroes, Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes: How Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)3. A Theory of Bureaucratic Ambition: Why Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)4. The Market for Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Career Path and Professional Innovation5. The Psychology of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Human Motivation and Political Advocacy6. Ramps and Ladders: How Career Systems Foster or Inhibit Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship7. What Bureaucratic Ambition Means for DemocracyAppendix A: Survey MethodologyAppendix B: Supplementary Regression Analysis ResultsNotesReferencesIndex

"Manuel Teodoro offers a whole new way of thinking about the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, tying the urge to innovate with career ambition. This book breaks new ground, and does so with an effective blending of new theorizing and new empirical work. This is sound scholarship that is original and exciting." (Michael Mintrom, author of People Skills for Policy Analysts and Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice)"

Manuel P. Teodoro is an assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Principles, Principals, and Ambition: The Politics of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship2. Glorious Heroes, Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes: How Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)3. A Theory of Bureaucratic Ambition: Why Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)4. The Market for Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Career Path and Professional Innovation5. The Psychology of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Human Motivation and Political Advocacy6. Ramps and Ladders: How Career Systems Foster or Inhibit Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship7. What Bureaucratic Ambition Means for DemocracyAppendix A: Survey MethodologyAppendix B: Supplementary Regression Analysis ResultsNotesReferencesIndex

"Manuel Teodoro offers a whole new way of thinking about the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, tying the urge to innovate with career ambition. This book breaks new ground, and does so with an effective blending of new theorizing and new empirical work. This is sound scholarship that is original and exciting." (Michael Mintrom, author of People Skills for Policy Analysts and Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice)"

Manuel P. Teodoro is an assistant professor of political science at Colgate University.

• PrefaceAcknowledgments1. Principles, Principals, and Ambition: The Politics of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship2. Glorious Heroes, Tragic Heroes, Antiheroes: How Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)3. A Theory of Bureaucratic Ambition: Why Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship Happens (or Doesn't)4. The Market for Bureaucratic Entrepreneurs: Career Path and Professional Innovation5. The Psychology of Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship: Human Motivation and Political Advocacy6. Ramps and Ladders: How Career Systems Foster or Inhibit Bureaucratic Entrepreneurship7. What Bureaucratic Ambition Means for DemocracyAppendix A: Survey MethodologyAppendix B: Supplementary Regression Analysis ResultsNotesReferencesIndex

"Manuel Teodoro offers a whole new way of thinking about the motivations of policy entrepreneurs, tying the urge to innovate with career ambition. This book breaks new ground, and does so with an effective blending of new theorizing and new empirical work. This is sound scholarship that is original and exciting." (Michael Mintrom, author of People Skills for Policy Analysts and Policy Entrepreneurs and School Choice)"