Standard solutions to the threat of> 1.5° C global average warming are not ambitious
enough to prevent large-scale irreversible loss. Meaningful climate action requires …

The scope and complexity of international forest-related governance have expanded
tremendously over the last decades. As many as 41 'institutional elements' were counted by …

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 …

The world faces grand challenges that threaten our socio-economical, ecological, and
political systems. Inequities, insurrections, invasions, and illiberal democracies represent a …

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 …

The policy process frameworks and theories that are currently considered mainstream were
originally developed in the United States, before traveling to other countries. Despite their …

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 …

Policy scholars have increasingly focused on collaborative and competitive relationships
between stakeholder coalitions. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in particular has …

While emotions are an inherent component of the human experience that influence
behavior, values, and beliefs, they have largely been left out of policy process studies …

Social contagion is a ubiquitous and fundamental process that drives individual and social
changes. Although social contagion arises as a result of cognitive processes and biases, the …