As a mature paradigm of network analysis, social network analysis (SNA) is suitable for
exploring complicated and interactive relationships in policy research and is of great …

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 …

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 …

Abstract The Blue Economy is an ocean based economic growth model gaining traction
around the world. The way in which the Blue Economy is conceived and understood differs …

In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among public policy scholars to
explore the applicability of policy process frameworks across political systems. One popular …

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 …

Populist hunting movements have risen in recent years to safeguard rural interests against
nature conservation. In extreme cases this movement has been accompanied by the illegal …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) asserts that disagreement over policy core beliefs
divides organizations into competing coalitions. We apply Discourse Network Analysis to …

Employees often engage in collective grassroots efforts to bring about gender equity in the
workplace. Such coalition-based advocacy is largely driven by women, which has led to …

Research on the governance of social-ecological systems often emphasizes the need for
self-organized, flexible and adaptive arrangements to deal with uncertainty, abrupt change …