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 …

The object of policy research is the understanding of the interaction among the machinery of
the state, political actors, and the public. To facilitate this understanding, a number of …

This chapter aims to detail the narrative policy framework (NPF) in an effort to provide a
means by which policy researchers in a variety of contexts can advance scientific …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework has a growing number of researchers seeking to
apply the framework in policy process scholarship. This article is intended to assist those …

Now in a thoroughly revised Fifth Edition, An Introduction to the Policy Process provides
students at all levels with an accessible, readable, and affordable introduction to the field of …

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 …

N arrative P olicy F ramework (NPF) is a new and maturing theory of the policy process that
takes a systematic, scientific approach to understanding the social construction of policy …

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to
reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field …

About two decades ago, Paul Sabatier (1991) urged scholars to develop better theories and
empirics for understanding policy processes. Sabatier's proposition, in collaboration with …

You will stir up little controversy by asserting that human beings are storytelling animals. We
all have at least a rough accounting of what a story is. Stories progress from beginnings …