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 …

Why can some interest groups influence policy-making while others cannot? Even though
this question is central to the study of politics, we know little about the factors explaining …

This book explores the complex relationship between public health research and policy,
employing tobacco control and health inequalities in the UK as contrasting case studies. It …

The number of interest groups that are active in the European Union increased sharply from
the mid-1980s onwards (Greenwood 2007: 12). 1 Since one of the main objectives of these …

There has been a proliferation of administrative practices and processes of policy‐making
and policy delivery beyond but often overlapping with traditional nation state policy …

In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among public policy scholars to
explore the applicability of policy process frameworks across political systems. One popular …

Incorporating the latest developments from the field, this eagerly awaited new edition once
again provides an important and comprehensive analysis of the key issues in public health …

This article describes and explains the variable extent to which domestic interest
organizations seek access to the multiple venues provided by the European system of …

To what extent do political opportunity structures and interest group activities in the
European Union affect each other? This question is central to our analysis below and …

This contribution addresses a topic somewhat ignored by scholars studying group politics in
the European Union: namely, how the nature of policy issues structures the context within …