ABSTRACT
This chapter investigates the key participants of policy making, known as the “policy entrepreneurs.” The policy stream is simply involved with proposals. Concerns about national mood, bureaucratic bargaining and administrative changes all develop in the political stream. In China, setting the policy stream separate from the influence of public opinion and political turnover has both limits and strengths. In China, since drunk driving has become a prominent social problem, a number of people and organizations online and offline have made proposals to criminalize it. The preventive shift of criminal law is the result of the collective effect of specialists, even if they don’t have the specific intention of making criminal law more preventive per se. The inclusion of policy entrepreneurs in proposal drafting has a significant impact on the revisions to Chinese criminal law. The policy stream in the Chinese context refines the multiple streams framework of Kingdon.
