ABSTRACT
This chapter describes how policy entrepreneurs have conducted themselves in the face of intense opposition from groups which disagree with the moral positions embodied in their policy objectives. It considers instances of policy entrepreneurship in three distinctive jurisdictions, that each case involves efforts to secure government funding and permissive regulation of human embryonic stem cell research. The chapter shows how policy entrepreneurs have sought to promote more funding and less restrictive regulation for the controversial area of contemporary science through case studies of policy entrepreneurship and human embryonic stem cell research in California, the United Kingdom, and Italy. In each case, the policy entrepreneurs involved met with significant opposition due to the morality issues at stake. The chapter shows how policy entrepreneurs pursue their goals in the face of intense morality politics. It also shows how the work of policy entrepreneurs can be both supported and inhibited by ideas, institutions and interest-groups in the polis.
