This chapter provides an overview of one framework that can help answer the questions: the
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To better understand how the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is applied, this article
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Given the importance of oil and gas from Russia for many European countries, the invasion
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The study of policy processes brings focus to many questions of both theoretical and
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The concept of “advocacy coalitions” is the bedrock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
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A comprehensive introduction to public policy and the policy cycle, the fully revised second
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The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a framework of the policy process developed
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A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public
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About two decades ago, Paul Sabatier (1991) urged scholars to develop better theories and
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The Public Policy Process is essential reading for anyone trying to understand the process
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