Political engagement can be positive, constructive, and cooperative in manner, or at variance with external actors' views and actions through advocating for change, or even condemning the policies and actions of other actors.
But too often the irresponsible actions of "bad actors" hurt innocents, people with no opportunity to ensure that the business was conducted responsibly.
The myth obscured the reality of diverse state practices that escaped the control of the centre because they arose from the contingent beliefs and actions of diverse actors at the boundaries of the state and civil society.
Montebourg's "New Industrial France" aimed to combine the actions of public actors and private companies to help the emergence of future French innovation.
This framework emphasizes the pivotal role of boundary objects and delineates the dynamics among the structure of an activity system, the actions of its actors, and its environments.
Input was the long list of drivers, the assessed uncertainties and impacts, and the naming and actions of significant actors who could impact on the future state.
It helps us to analyze the actions of challenger actors on a local level, which eventually might contribute to a change in the overall system.
A legitimate historiographical goal is to identify causal mechanisms within historical processes, and these mechanisms invariably depend on the actions of historical actors situated within concrete social relations.
However, it is not only the individual actions of institutional actors that are not fully determined by structure, function and culture.
At the same time, actors work with promises (and sometimes concerns), anticipate informally and more analytically, and base investment of resources on what are essentially bets on anticipated socioeconomic returns, as well as on possible actions of other actors [1].
