Political Entrepreneurship: How to Build Successful Centrist Political Start-Ups

ISBN-13: 9783030028602 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 149 str.

Josef Lentsch

Opis

This book demonstrates how political entrepreneurs - entrepreneurially minded citizens who launch innovative political start-ups - can drive political change.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction

1. Introducing Political Entrepreneurship

1.1. Entrepreneurship

1.2. Social Entrepreneurship

1.3. Civic Entrepreneurship

1.4. Political Entrepreneurship

1.4.1. The centrist Spring: Introducing the Political Start-ups

1.5. Conceptual distinctions

1.5.1. Insiders versus Outsiders

1.5.2. Rooted versus Entrepreneurial

1.5.3. Media Access

1.6. Congratulations, It’s a Start-Up!

1.7. The Central Challenge

2. Liberal Democracies in Crisis

2.1. Realignment Instead of Disintegration

2.2. Reclaiming Democracy

2.3. Resourceful Revolutionaries

2.4. The Importance of Roots

3. Leadership

3.1. Without Power

3.2. In Uncertainty

3.3. For the Greater Good

3.4. Without Clients

3.5. From the Future

3.6. Leading political entrepreneurs

3.7. In Times of Crisis

3.8. Leading to Transform

4. Understanding Political Systems

4.1. Envisioning a New Politics

4.2. The power of the pen

4.3. Discussion and debate

5. Building Models for Political Change

5.1. Prepare

5.1.1. Individual Level

5.1.2. Organisational Level

5.2. Assemble

6. (Co)-Design

6.1. Continuous Learning and Transformation

6.2. Fundraising

6.2.1. Incentivise Party Members

6.2.2. High-Net-Worth Individuals

6.2.3. Relations with Pollsters

6.2.4. Incentivise Regional Organisations

6.3. Openness and Transparency

6.3.1. Openness

6.3.2. Transparency

6.4. Unity in Diversity

6.5. Controlling

6.6. Exponential Growth

6.7. Brand Differentiation

6.8. Cutting-edge Communication

6.9. Reasoned Arguments

6.10. Looking Beyond National Borders

6.11. Resilience

7. Getting Competitive

7.1. Critical mass

7.2. Found/Launch

7.3. The story of La Grande Marche

8. Ready, Steady, Go

8.1. Run

9. Enter

9.1. Re-integrating

9.2. Re-engaging

9.3. Consolidating

9.4. Offboarding people (the right way)

9.5. Re-focusing

9.6. Rookie mistakes

10. Growing Up and Handing Over

10.1. Top-Down

10.2. Bottom-up

10.3. Scaling Strategy

10.4. In Opposition

10.5. Develop an Ecosystem

10.6. Re-Enter

10.7. Getting into Government

10.7.1. Talking Coalition

10.8. Challenges Ahead

10.9. Passing the baton

11. Political Entrepreneurs and the Evolution of Democracy

11.1. Political Intrapreneurship

11.2. Political Entrepreneurship in the UK and the US

11.3. The Trouble with Democracy

11.4. The Future of Political Entrepreneurship

Epilogue

Bibliography

Appendix

Acknowledgements

About the Author

O autorze

Josef Lentsch is Founding Director of NEOS Lab, the party academy of NEOS in Vienna, Austria. He was a founding board member of NEOS.

Prior to that, he was the International Director for the Royal Society of Arts in London. He co-founded, managed and sold UNIPORT, Austria’s largest careers service for students and graduates.

He holds an MSc in Psychology from the University of Vienna, and an MPA in Public Administration from Harvard University. 

Blurb

This book demonstrates how political entrepreneurs – entrepreneurially minded citizens who launch innovative political start-ups – can drive political change. Building on unique insights, rich examples and personal stories of centrist political entrepreneurs distilled from 40 in-depth interviews, the author guides readers through key stages of political entrepreneurship, and shows how to master them. By equally highlighting successes and failures, the book reveals how political entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative political change.

 

In light of the populist challenge and the decline of traditional political parties, the book also offers an entertaining backstage view and first-hand insights into the successes of En Marche in France, Ciudadanos in Spain, NEOS in Austria and other centrist political startups. It provides practical advice on how to learn from and replicate their successes. Political practitioners and other politically interested readers will find a useful theory of Political Entrepreneurship – what it is, how it works, and what its role is in 21st century democracies. Most of all, they will find essential, reproducible tools and methods.

“You have read a lot about startups in business, but if you want to know how Silicon Valley style startups look in politics, read this. Its author is not only writing about political entrepreneurs, he is one of them.”

Ivan Krastev (Chairman of the Centre for Liberal Strategies in Sofia, and permanent Fellow at the Institute of Human Sciences in Vienna)

“No one understands better what it takes to take a political start up from ideation to the parliament better than Josef Lentsch. In ‘Political Entrepreneurship’ he combines first-hand experience with a thoughtful review of what we know about entrepreneurship in the interest of society.”

Johanna Mair (Professor of Organization, Strategy and Leadership at the Hertie School of Governance, and Co-Director Global Innovation for Impact Lab at Stanford University)