In this paper, we deal with the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) which has been
promoted as a promising theoretical approach of policy change and stability. After outlining …

Galvanized by Greta Thunberg's idea for Friday school strikes,“climate strikes” emerged in
2018 and 2019 as a form of youth social movement demanding far-reaching action on …

This chapter aims to detail the narrative policy framework (NPF) in an effort to provide a
means by which policy researchers in a variety of contexts can advance scientific …

Abstract The Narrative Policy Framework has a growing number of researchers seeking to
apply the framework in policy process scholarship. This article is intended to assist those …

Despite the rapidly expanding literature on agency in regional development, the
methodological approaches available to study it have not followed theoretical development …

Narratives are increasingly subject to empirical study in a wide variety of disciplines.
However, in public policy, narratives are thought of almost exclusively as a poststructural …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has influenced a generation of policy scholars
with its emphasis on causal drivers, testable hypotheses, and falsification. Until recently, the …

N arrative P olicy F ramework (NPF) is a new and maturing theory of the policy process that
takes a systematic, scientific approach to understanding the social construction of policy …

Public policy is a broad and interdisciplinary area of study and research in the field tends to
reflect this. Yet for those teaching and studying public policy, the disjointed nature of the field …

1. Setting: Policy narratives always have something to do with policy problems and are
situated in specific policy contexts. As such, the setting of a policy narrative consists of policy …