key actor

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The first approach emphasizes 'concentrated' interest groups as the key actors in influencing policy outcomes.
Our story has two key actors, men who had little in common.
It has provided the window by which the intricacies of power and the positions of key actors within the policy process could be examined.
The author sides with those scholars who consider strong states to be key actors in shaping economic growth possibilities.
That is, the research agenda of such agencies is typically determined by an advisory committee having representation from all the key actors.
Reformers therefore need to look at the key actors and their motives : who wants change and why, and who will benefit?
The other 'causes' of cabinet dissolution given above are each the result of voluntary decisions by key actors.
What matters is which ones key actors regard as significant, for which purposes and under which conditions.
However, it appears that ideas held by key actors, rather than ideas in institutions, provided the impetus and set the direction of reform.
Because of these responsibilities, it is currently accepted that unions are key actors in the debate concerning their pension system.
To create a different world is a somewhat larger matter of reflexive behaviour on the part of a critical mass of key actors.
There has been a tendency to emphasise the rhetoric of key actors and downplay what was actually done.
Lawyers are involved in the inquisitorial system of justice, but as advisors to their clients rather than as key actors in a trial.
State governors have largely replaced cabinet secretaries as key actors in the presidential nomination process.
Political parties are key actors in the process of democratisation and the consolidation of new parliamentary democracies.
Secondly, it is broad because it involves key actors from both the public and the private spheres.
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