This chapter provides an overview of one framework that can help answer the questions: the
Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). It begins with a summary of the intellectual …

Theoretical and empirical work on collaboration has proliferated in the last decade. The
authors' 2006 article on designing and implementing cross‐sector collaborations was a part …

Through a thematic analysis on major themes researched in network governance and
collaborative governance, this paper identifies the entangled relationship between these two …

Collaborative governance is increasingly viewed as a proactive policy instrument, one in
which the strategy of collaboration can be deployed on a larger scale and extended from …

All politics and policy issues involve the accumulation of data about problems and solutions
in context of social interactions. Drawing on these data, policy actors acquire, translate, and …

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 …

The public policy and public management literatures together support a vibrant discussion of
collaborative governance. Much of this scholarship takes a broad perspective focusing on …

Network governance has received much attention within the fields of public administration
and policy in recent years, but surprisingly few books are designed specifically to help …

There is much enthusiasm among scholars and public administrators for participatory and
collaborative modes of governance as a means to tackle contemporary environmental …

This paper addresses two research questions:(1) Does collaborative environmental
governance improve environmental outcomes? and (2) How do publicly supported …