This chapter provides an overview of one framework that can help answer the questions: the
Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). It begins with a summary of the intellectual …

Batteries play an important role in the decarbonisation of road transport. By looking at the
EU battery legislation from 1991 to 2022, policy change in the subsystem and its underlying …

The concept of “advocacy coalitions” is the bedrock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
(ACF), one of the most established and successful approaches for understanding policy …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a framework of the policy process developed
by Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith to deal with" wicked" problems–those involving …

In public policy processes, collective learning among policy actors is important in shaping
how these processes unfold and the types of policy outcomes that may result. Despite a …

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 …

A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public
policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). This essay reports on an analysis of 80 …

What mechanisms link external events to policy change in a policy subsystem? This paper
responds to this question by offering a nuanced re‐conceptualization of external events and …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) pays special attention to “so-called” policy brokers
when explaining policy change. However, this prominent policy approach neither clearly …

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 …