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 …

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 …

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 …

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) remains one of the most established and applied
approaches to studying policy processes. This chapter provides an overview of the ACF …

This paper evaluates the prospects for application of the “grid/group” cultural theory (CT), as
advanced by M ary D ouglas and A aron W ildavsky, to the A dvocacy C oalition T heory …

Cultural theory (CT) developed from grid/group analysis, which posits that different patterns
of social relations—hierarchist, individualist, egalitarian, and fatalist—produce compatible …

A key challenge in addressing the global degradation of natural resources and the
environment is to effectively transfer successful strategies across heterogeneous contexts …

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 …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) has developed into a comprehensive theoretical
approach to the policymaking process. Empirical findings have however posed challenges …