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 …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) is one of the most frequently applied theories of the
policy process. Most applications have been in Western Europe and North America. This …

Although India has made significant progress towards the sustainable development goal on
energy (SDG 7), further policy innovations are essential for closing the gap, addressing …

This review of 81 applications of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) in China between
2006 and 2017 finds that the ACF's hypotheses about the existence and stability of …

As collaborative governance processes continue to grow in popularity, practitioners and
policy scholars alike can benefit from the development of methods to better analyse and …

Since the emergence of public policy as a field of study in the middle of the twentieth
century, a definitive challenge has been to develop theoretical approaches for the …

This chapter offers an entrée to and reflection on the comparative policy process research.
We cover the fundamental challenges of theoretical and empirical extensions of policy …

Corporatist Nordic welfare states are largely thought to have exemplary environmental
policies. Finland, however, was labeled “a failing ecostate” by a recent study owing to its …

What drives the development of climate policy? Brazil, China, and India have all changed
their climate policies since 2000, and single-case analyses of climate policymaking have …

Described as a magical concept (Pollitt and Hupe 2011), the notion of governance can be
traced mainly to efforts to advance theory in response to socio-political developments since …