摘要：The role played by policy entrepreneurs in preparing, initiating, and implementing waterpolicy change in Spain over the last two decades is examined in an effort to understand how transitions inwater management occur. The main questions considered are whether policy entrepreneurs can influencewater policy change, and which strategies they actually adopt to promote change. John Kingdon's multiplestreams framework was used to assess the ways in which policy entrepreneurs succeed in challenging thedominant agenda, mobilizing alternative policy ideas, and making use of multiple venues for initiatingpolicy change. The data set comprises secondary documentation and interviews with state and non-stateactors involved in Spanish water management. The main findings are that policy entrepreneurs from certainsocial, scientific, and political organizations have indeed played a central role in fracturing the traditionaland long-standing approach and decision making process to water management as well as in opening newavenues for policy change. The main implication is that accounts of water management transitions shouldplace greater emphasis on the role of agency in bringing about policy change
关键词：policy entrepreneurs; Spain; transitions; water management
