The recent ideational turn in political science and public administration implies that ideas
matter. Ideas are an essential explanatory concept for understanding policy changes and …

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 …

Floods, earthquakes, droughts, and other recurrent disasters around the globe have sparked
renewed interest in whether and how disasters can be leveraged as turning points for …

Policy innovation is considered important for addressing major challenges such as climate
change and the sustainable energy transition. Although policy learning is likely to play a key …

This article compares the functioning of the intergovernmental systems in Italy and Spain
facing the COVID-19 crisis. Combining the public administration literature on policy learning …

How can we empirically identify and measure policy learning? Through a problematized
review, we develop a novel perspective to identifying, explaining, and addressing …

Through learning, policy actors can maintain, reinforce, or revise their beliefs and positions
about the design and outcomes of policies. This paper critically analyzes factors influencing …

Policy processes are ongoing phenomena without beginning or end. Accordingly, a major
focus of research has been on questions of stability and change. This paper continues in this …

As eleições presidenciais brasileiras de 2018 trouxeram mudanças em larga escala no
subsistema de política ambiental do país. O objetivo deste artigo é analisar essas …