ABSTRACT Indonesia has a tradition in recruiting a particular ‘species’ of policy entrepreneur, mentioned in the present article as Academic Administrative Entrepreneurs (AAEs). AAE is defined as a university professor who is employed into public office due to their expertise in specific policy areas and their access to various forms of knowledge, social, and political capital. AAEs investigated in this study were instrumental in leading and managing national administrative reform policy in post-authoritarian Indonesia (1998-onwards). This article explores how AAEs start and initiate the reform agenda, identifies what resources they invest, challenges and barriers they encountered, and their effectiveness in leading and managing change. Based on a series of interviews with AAEs and their colleagues, it is observed that AAEs are qualified to be identified as a policy entrepreneurs as they meet essential elements required where the balance of knowledge, political and social capital and good timing in relation to the political salience of their expertise enable them influence processes of administrative reform. However, they tended to be more effective on incremental change which contains little political risk where it is noted that the context of transition to democracy works as an important antecedent condition of their effectiveness.

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公职人员担任政策企业家：他们在印度尼西亚行政改革中的重要作用

摘要印度尼西亚在招募政策企业家的特定“物种”方面有着悠久的传统，在本文中称为“学术行政企业家（AAE）”。AAE被定义为大学教授，由于其在特定政策领域的专长以及获得各种形式的知识，社会和政治资本而被聘为公职。在这项研究中调查的AAEs有助于领导和管理专制后印度尼西亚的国家行政改革政策（1998年起）。本文探讨了AAE如何启动和启动改革议程，确定了它们投资了哪些资源，遇到的挑战和障碍以及它们在领导和管理变革中的有效性。根据对AAE及其同事的一系列采访，可以看出，行政和管理当局有资格被视为政策企业家，因为他们满足了必要的基本要素，而知识，政治和社会资本的平衡以及与其专业知识的政治重要性有关的良好时机使它们能够影响行政改革的过程。但是，它们往往对渐进式变革更为有效，而这种渐进式变革几乎没有政治风险，因为人们注意到，向民主过渡的背景是其有效性的重要前提。