Highlights•Policy integration is a continuous process of adjustment through reflexivity and
learning.•There are key processual and structural reasons why governments pursue …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a widely-applied theoretical framework to
explain the dynamics of the policy process and major policy change. This chapter provides …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) remains one of the most established and applied
approaches to studying policy processes. This chapter provides an overview of the ACF …

Despite the prominence of exogenous factors in theories of policy change, the precise
mechanisms that link such factors to policy change remain elusive: The effects of exogenous …

The legislators of the European Union (EU) have agreed on the FuelEU Maritime regulation,
so far, the world's most ambitious pathway to maritime decarbonisation. FuelEU Maritime …

Limiting global warming to 2° C or less compared with pre-industrial temperatures will
require unprecedented rates of decarbonization globally. The scale and scope of …

High levels of conflict among coalitions in a policy process are often attributed to belief
divergence and may lead to policy gridlock. Thus, reducing belief divergence may facilitate …

Why do some countries enact more ambitious climate change policies than others? Macro
level economic and political structures, such as the economic weight of fossil fuel industries …

The climate change counter-movement (CCCM) was created in 1989 immediately following
the formation of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Brulle 2014) and has only …

The world faces grand challenges that threaten our socio-economical, ecological, and
political systems. Inequities, insurrections, invasions, and illiberal democracies represent a …