The Institutional Entrepreneur and the Relationship between the State and the Market : An Application to the Television Sector in Italy

This article analyzes the causes of the evolution of market forms, starting from the idea that a specific type of non public agents: the “institutional entrepreneurs" may be at the origin of social systems' “push from below” to induce institutional change. This idea is developed in a theoretical framework and with a specific application to the television sector in Italy, also with reference to the emergence of regulation as a fruit, not necessarily welfare enhancing, of self interested behavior on the part of social actors