The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) illuminates the dynamic role of narratives in the
policy process. For more than a decade, NPF scholarship has examined the power of …

Narrative has been observed to be central to the policy process–constituting public policy
instruments, persuading decision makers and the public, and shaping all stages of the policy …

Background Community engagement is crucial for integrated and adaptive river
management but an organized body of knowledge to systematically promote community …

Globally, infection and death rates from COVID-19 vary dramatically. While states had
broadly the same information about the virus at the start of the crisis, responses were very …

Since the 1980s, scholars have been documenting protest movements against the building
of large hydropower dams. These movements have arisen mainly in communities where …

The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) is a comprehensive approach to studying public
policy that aspires to capture the policy process at multiple levels of analysis, across time …

There is increasing interest in the role of narratives in policy-making, as evidenced by the
consolidation of the Narrative Policy Framework, a theory of the policy process whose …

Recent research on policy narratives shows that stakeholders strategically switch away from
their preferred policy narrative to a different policy narrative in an effort to better appeal to the …

Narratives concerning the working class and their relationship to climate change are
important. In particular, how the narrative constructs the relationship and, within this, who …

How do policymakers respond to crises? The Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) answers
this question by focusing on the contest over policy narratives. This paper focuses on the …