To better understand how the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is applied, this article
catalogues and analyzes 161 applications of the ACF from 2007 to 2014. Building on a …

This article reviews and synthesizes the uses of expert‐based information in policy
subsystems. The review begins by summarizing the different uses of information in the …

Many have advocated for collaborative governance and the participation of citizens and
stakeholders on the basis that it can improve the environmental outcomes of public decision …

The concept of “advocacy coalitions” is the bedrock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
(ACF), one of the most established and successful approaches for understanding policy …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a framework of the policy process developed
by Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith to deal with" wicked" problems–those involving …

Policies and politics are an integral part of socio-technical transitions but have not received
much attention in the transitions literature so far. Drawing on the advocacy coalition …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has influenced a generation of policy scholars
with its emphasis on causal drivers, testable hypotheses, and falsification. Until recently, the …

A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public
policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). This essay reports on an analysis of 80 …

About two decades ago, Paul Sabatier (1991) urged scholars to develop better theories and
empirics for understanding policy processes. Sabatier's proposition, in collaboration with …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a prominent approach to investigate the
formation of coalition and their impact on policy outputs. Although the ACF combines both …