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 …

Light pollution is a global threat to biodiversity, especially migratory organisms, some of
which traverse hemispheric scales. Research on light pollution has grown significantly over …

This article proposes an innovative theoretical framework that combines institutional and
policy network approaches to study multi-level governance. The framework is used to derive …

Governance Networks in the Public Sector presents a comprehensive study of governance
networks and the management of complexities in network settings. Public, private and non …

Meta-reviews of the implementation literature have constantly bemoaned a lack of theory in
this area. This is partially a function of the policy sciences having inherited a tradition of …

The study of policy processes brings focus to many questions of both theoretical and
practical significance. Some questions center on the behavior of coalition actors who directly …

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 …

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

How does major policy change come about? This article identifies and rectifies weaknesses
in the conceptualization of innovative policy change in the A dvocacy C oalition F ramework …