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 …

Background: On March 11, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared the novel
coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a global pandemic. Starting in December 2019 from China …

Over 30 years, several key frameworks and theories of the policy process have emerged
which have guided a burgeoning empirical literature. A more recent development has been …

Solar energy is a substantial global industry, one that has generated trade disputes among
superpowers, threatened the solvency of large energy companies, and prompted serious …

While John Kingdon's Multiple Streams Approach (MSA) remains a key reference point in
the public policy literature, few have attempted to assess MSA holistically. To assess its …

A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
edition of this popular textbook offers a practical guide to the topic while remaining …

This paper critiques the state of the art approaches to studying transportation policy. It does
so through analysing 100 papers sampled from the two leading policy journals in the …

To communicate effectively in policymaking systems, actors need to understand how
policymakers process evidence and the environment in which they operate. Therefore, we …

This paper provides a survey of policy process theories and their usefulness in transitions
research. Some research has already used such theories, but often in an ad hoc and …

J ohn K ingdon's M ultiple S treams F ramework (MSF) constitutes a powerful tool for
understanding the policy process, and more specifically, agenda‐setting, through three …