Emprendimiento político: actores, estrategias y motivaciones

• Autores: María-Imelda Robalino
• Localización: Revista de estudios políticos, ISSN 0048-7694, Nº 209, 2025, págs. 285-308
• Idioma: español
• DOI: 10.18042/cepc/rep.209.12
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Political entrepreneurship: Actors, strategies and motivations
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  • español

    El emprendimiento político representa un proceso transformador de las políticas públicas para crear valor social y mejorar el bienestar colectivo mediante la innovación y la implementación de soluciones creativas en la gestión pública. Los emprendedores políticos, que pueden ser funcionarios gubernamentales, líderes políticos, actores no gubernamentales o expertos, se caracterizan por su agudeza social, capacidad de liderazgo, experiencia en áreas relevantes y disposición a asumir riesgos. Emplean estrategias como el aprovechamiento de ventanas de oportunidad, el enmarcado de problemas y soluciones y la construcción de coaliciones. Sus motivaciones abarcan desde el impacto social hasta el beneficio personal e ideológico. Estos hallazgos son resultado de una revisión sistemática de literatura que analizó 274 artículos académicos, seleccionados de un corpus inicial de 1312 publicaciones indexadas en Scopus. El análisis combinó técnicas bibliométricas con herramientas de procesamiento de lenguaje natural para identificar patrones, tendencias y debates clave en la literatura sobre emprendimiento político.

  • English

    Political entrepreneurship represents a transformative process of public policy that seeks to create social value and improve collective well-being through innovation and the implementation of creative solutions in public management. Political entrepreneurs, who can be government officials, political leaders, non-governmental actors, or experts, are characterized by their social acuity, leadership capacity, experience in relevant areas, and willingness to take risks. They employ strategies such as leveraging windows of opportunity, framing problems and solutions, and building coalitions. Their motivations range from social impact to personal and ideological benefit. These findings result from a systematic literature review that analyzed 274 academic articles, selected from an initial corpus of 1312 publications indexed in Scopus. The analysis combined bibliometric techniques with natural language processing tools to identify key patterns, trends, and debates in the literature on political entrepreneurship.

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