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 …

This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy
change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in …

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 …

A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public
policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). This essay reports on an analysis of 80 …

The notions of urban resilience and the resilient city have gained considerable attention and
interest over recent years, not only in relation to environmental management but also in …

This book takes a unique approach to policy, looking not at particular fields or at what
governments are doing, but looking more generally at the concept of policy. This approach …

The first nation-wide analysis of the politics of performance funding in higher education.
Performance funding ties state support of colleges and universities directly to institutional …

In the natural sciences, the concept of “(natural) tipping points” has become a hot topic in
climate change research. To better understand and evaluate the possibilities for and the …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) pays special attention to “so-called” policy brokers
when explaining policy change. However, this prominent policy approach neither clearly …

One of the challenges of collaborative governance is fostering learning among diverse
stakeholders who have very different views on disputed topics of science and policy …