Can street-level workers from an ethnic minority in a divided society act as policy entrepreneurs and affect policy design? How their shared values with the homogeneous local government play a role in enabling policy entrepreneurship? Active representation refers to bureaucrats promoting the interests of the clients with whom they share the same characteristics or background. The assumption is that the behaviour of the bureaucrats—rather than their background, per se—affects citizens’ responses. However, in such cases, although they are active, street-level workers are fighting to change outcomes within institutions established by others. With regard to Arab social workers in Israel, we provide a new perspective on how ethnic minority street-level workers in a divided society may go beyond active representation in an attempt to directly influence policy design as entrepreneurs. We also identify the conditions that drive policy entrepreneurship and the strategies used to accomplish these goals.

在分裂的社会中，来自少数民族的街头工人能否充当政策企业家并影响政策设计？他们与同质地方政府的共同价值观如何在促进政策创业方面发挥作用？积极代表是指官僚促进与其具有相同特征或背景的委托​​人的利益。假设是官僚的行为——而不是他们的背景本身——影响公民的反应。然而，在这种情况下，尽管街头工人很活跃，但他们仍在努力改变其他人建立的机构内的结果。对于以色列的阿拉伯社会工作者，我们提供了一个新的视角：在一个分裂的社会中，少数民族街头工人如何超越积极代表权，试图以企业家的身份直接影响政策设计。