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 …

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 …

Education reform is increasingly portrayed as a means to improve a nation's global
competitiveness as measured by its performance in international league tables of pupil …

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 …

Organizational goals lie at the heart of strategic public management. While research has
centred on the performance impact of organizational goals and goal clarity, the field remains …

This essay introduces a Policy Conflict Framework to guide and organize theoretical,
practical, and empirical research to fill the vacuum that surrounds policy conflicts. The …

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

High levels of conflict among coalitions in a policy process are often attributed to belief
divergence and may lead to policy gridlock. Thus, reducing belief divergence may facilitate …

Deep core beliefs represent an important yet theoretically underspecified concept within the
A dvocacy C oalition F ramework (ACF). This underspecification can (in part) be attributed to …