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- Henry, Adam, et al.
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Policy Change in Comparative Contexts : Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework Outside of Western Europe and North America
- 2014
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Ingår i: Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. - Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge. - 1387-6988 .- 1572-5448. ; 16:4, s. 299-312
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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 article provides an overview of the ACF, summarizes existing applications outside of Western Europe and North America, and introduces the special issue that features applications of the ACF in the Philippines, China, India, and Kenya. This article concludes with an argument for the continued application of the ACF outside of Western Europe and North America and a research agenda for overcoming challenges in using the ACF in comparative public policy research.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel
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Advocacy coalitions in crisis resolution : understanding policy dispute in the european volcanic ash cloud crisis
- 2013
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Ingår i: Public Administration. - : Wiley. - 0033-3298 .- 1467-9299. ; 91:4, s. 964-979
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Disruptive crises are generally conducive to policy conflict between multiple stakeholders. Following the potentially adversarial nature of crisis resolution, there is a need for theoretical approaches to advance the understanding of the political context in which such disputes evolve. This article explains how the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) can be applied as a theoretical basis for understanding the development and effects of policy conflicts in crisis resolution. Illustrating the ACF as a tool for descriptive policy analysis in this context, the article conducts a case study of the European response to the 2010 volcanic ash cloud crisis, focusing on the nature of the policy subsystem, the role of scientific information, competing crisis narratives, exploitation of resources and venues, and policy change. The concluding section identifies a set of theoretical implications and specifies how the framework can be used by practitioners to mitigate the effects of policy conflicts on crisis resolution.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
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Converging under pressure? : Counterterrorism policy developments in the European union member states
- 2010
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Ingår i: Public Administration. - Chichester, West Sussex : Wiley-Blackwell. - 0033-3298 .- 1467-9299. ; 88:1, s. 190-201
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This article analyses counterterrorism policy convergence among the 27 European Union (EU) member states between 2000 and 2006. While considerable academic interest has been devoted to the common European Union policy in response to terrorism after September 11, few studies have compared counterterrorism policy-making at the member state level. This gap raises the question whether the institutional framework of European counterterrorism policy-making has stimulated convergence of national policies. Data on five policy instruments for counterterrorism show that the aggregated implementation rate increased by almost 55 per cent in this period, which indicates a trend towards policy divergence within the EU as a whole. However, the findings also reveal significant variation in the level and pace of policy instrument implementation. One potentially important variable explaining national policy developments is the degree of political pressure from the EU on member states, while EU membership accession and national counterterrorism policy legacies were less important factors.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel
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Do Advocacy Coalitions Matter? : Crisis and Change in Swedish Nuclear Energy Policy
- 2010
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Ingår i: Journal of public administration research and theory. - UK : Oxford University Press. - 1053-1858 .- 1477-9803. ; 20:2, s. 309-333
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This study applies the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) to developments in Swedish nuclear energy policy in the 1970s and 80s. In an effort to contribute to the refinement and debate regarding the generalizability of ACF theory, the objective is to assess the utility of ACF assumptions when applied in this case. The study explores hypotheses about advocacy coalition stability and examines the motivations explaining policy change in the wake of the 1979 Three Mile Island accident and the 1986 Chernobyl disaster. Utilizing different sources of data, the study confirms patterns of coalition stability and shows that interests and political learning were important in explaining policy change in this case. Theoretical implications derived from this study call for further specification of basic ACF concepts(external perturbations, dominant coalitions, and skillful exploitation) and posit the intensity and breadth of political conflict and strategic action as critical factors contributing to the explanation of policy change in contested policy areas.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
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Evolutionary Dynamics of Crisis Preparedness Collaboration : Resources, Turbulence and Network Change in Swedish Municipalities
- 2014
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Ingår i: Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. - Oxford : Wiley-Blackwell. - 1944-4079. ; 5:2, s. 134-155
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Societal responses to climate change risks and hazards increasingly involve interorganizational collaboration across policy areas, sectors, and levels of government. Different views exist in the literature regarding changes in such collaborative arrangements; whereas some argue that maintaining stability of collaborative networks is a precursor for effective crisis management, others maintain that network adaptation is necessary to cope with complex risks and rude surprises. This controversy turns the spotlight on the more fundamental question of what influences changes in collaborative networks in this area. Using survey data on municipality managers in Sweden, this study presents evidence of a dramatic increase in annual change of interorganizational ties while the total magnitude of ties to different types of actors has essentially remained constant over time. To explain these developments, the study builds from resource dependency theory (RDT) and explores the relationship between resources, environmental turbulence, and network change. The findings suggest that RDT has limited explanatory value in this case; no association was found between resources, turbulence, and network change. An alternative hypothesis is introduced suggesting that changes in networking strategies are a function of outside pressure to collaborate and uncertainty about collaborative practices and the benefits of collaboration, which feed an experimental approach to networking.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel
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Shifting Resources and Venues Producing Policy Change in Contested Subsystems : A Case Study of Swedish Signals Intelligence Policy
- 2011
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Ingår i: Policy Studies Journal. - : Wiley. - 0190-292X .- 1541-0072. ; 39:3, s. 461-484
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In the last decade and across countries, changes in national intelligence policies have spurred wide-spread political opposition and public protest. Instances of intelligence policy change warrant close academic attention to cast light on the dynamics of policymaking in contested policy areas. In an effort to contribute to further development of a theory of policy change within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), this article analyzes the adoption of legislation in Sweden to expand the mandate for signals intelligence gathering. Three explanatory variables are derived from the ACF to explain policy change in this case: shifts in advocacy coalition membership, distribution of coalition resources, and access to policy venues. Whereas shifts in coalition membership were unrelated to policy change in this case, the case-study lends partial support to the role of resource distribution and policy venues. To promote the progress of an ACF theory of policy change, the study concludes by drawing two theoretical implications: (i) introducing hierarchical classification of coalition resources and (ii) identification of revised policy narratives and exploitative policy entrepreneurship as causal mechanisms linking external shocks to venue shifts and policy change.
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- Nohrstedt, Daniel, et al.
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The Logic of Policy Change after Crisis : Proximity and Subsystem Interaction
- 2010
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Ingår i: Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. - Berkeley, Califonia : Berkeley Electronic Press. - 1944-4079. ; 1:2, s. 1-32
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- What mechanisms link external events to policy change in a policy subsystem? Thispaper responds to this question by offering a nuanced re-conceptualization ofexternal events and by identifying the mechanisms that link disruptive crises topolicy change. Building from the tenets of the advocacy coalition framework and asynthesis of the crisis management and policy change literatures, this paper (1)introduces the concept of policy and geographical proximity as a means to showhow different types of crises alter the incentives for policy action within policysubsystems; (2) discusses an integrated set of proposals on how geographical andpolicy proximity affects the prospects of change in a policy subsystem; and (3)presents hypothesized scenarios outlining plausible intervening pathways linking acrisis to changes as contingent on policy subsystem structures.
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