| 1. |
- Fidelman, Pedro, et al.
(författare)
-
Coalition cohesion for regional marine governance : A stakeholder analysis of the Coral Triangle Initiative
- 2014
-
Ingår i: Ocean and Coastal Management. - : Elsevier BV. - 0964-5691 .- 1873-524X. ; 95, s. 117-128
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Coral Triangle Initiative (CTI) is a regional-scale effort involving numerous stakeholders aiming to address pressing coastal and marine problems that threaten the ecological, economic, and cultural identities of the Southeast Asia Pacific Coral Triangle region. This paper draws on the Advocacy Coalition Framework to examine the main CTI stakeholders to better understand their efforts to design and implement marine management policies. It explores CTI stakeholders' policy beliefs and preferences, their patterns of collaboration and trust, their access to resources and level of influence, and their views on the overall performance of the CTI circa 2011. Data come primarily from a survey of 63 stakeholders. The findings suggest that the CTI is best viewed as a nascent, collaborative policy subsystem wherein there is strong support for the CTI objectives among stakeholders, convergence in policy beliefs and preferences, and instances of collaboration. However, some tensions are highlighted within the policy subsystem, which risk undermining the effectiveness and long-term sustainability of the Initiative. We argue that, as the CTI matures, it is important to maintain broad convergence in policy beliefs to prevent the formation of adversarial coalitions within the CTI, and/or to avoid unilateral prioritisation of powerful global interests to the detriment of national and local priorities. While political fortunes lie beyond prediction, these scenarios might be averted through the aid of a policy broker and through fostering established and new collaborative forums with institutional arrangements that promote trust and consensus.
|
|
| 2. |
- Fullerton, Allegra H., et al.
(författare)
-
Examining emotional belief expressions of advocacy coalitions in Arkansas' gender identity politics
- 2024
-
Ingår i: Policy Studies Journal. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 0190-292X .- 1541-0072. ; 52:2, s. 369-389
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Many theories and approaches to policy studies have recently begun to question and research how emotions interact with peoples' understanding and behaviors, especially in policy and politics. This paper builds on and contributes to studying emotions in policy and politics via the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). In applying Emotional-Belief Analysis, this paper examines the legislative testimony on one of the US' first gender-affirming care (GAC) bans. It shows that those testifying can be organized in competing advocacy coalitions with distinct emotion-belief expressions in combination with deep core and policy core beliefs. Moreover, expressions of negative emotions and policy core beliefs display significant and the largest effects in explaining coalition affiliation and shared views of the bill banning GAC. The conclusion summarizes the paper's empirical themes with suggestions for incorporating emotions more into the ACF and the broader policy studies field.
|
|
| 3. |
|
|
| 4. |
|
|
| 5. |
- Morrison, Tiffany H., et al.
(författare)
-
Building blocks of polycentric governance
- 2023
-
Ingår i: Policy Studies Journal. - : Wiley. - 0190-292X .- 1541-0072. ; 51:3, s. 475-499
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Success or failure of a polycentric system is a function of complex political and social processes, such as coordination between actors and venues to solve specialized policy problems. Yet there is currently no accepted method for isolating distinct processes of coordination, nor to understand how their variance affects polycentric governance performance. We develop and test a building-blocks approach that uses different patterns or “motifs” for measuring and comparing coordination longitudinally on Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Our approach confirms that polycentric governance comprises an evolving substrate of interdependent venues and actors over time. However, while issue specialization and actor participation can be improved through the mobilization of venues, such a strategy can also fragment overall polycentric capacity to resolve conflict and adapt to new problems. A building-blocks approach advances understanding and practice of polycentric governance by enabling sharper diagnosis of internal dynamics in complex environmental governance systems.
|
|
| 6. |
- Nohrstedt, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
-
Comparing policy processes : insights and lessons from the Advocacy Coalition Framework research program
- 2020. - 1
-
Ingår i: Handbook of Research Methods and Applications in Comparative Policy Analysis. - Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing. - 9781788111188 - 9781788111195 ; , s. 67-89
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) represents one of the most influential and widely used frameworks of the policy process. This chapter introduces the concepts and assumptions of the ACF and describes how the framework can support comparative public policy research across countries and contexts. The chapter depicts the ACF as a research programme which provides a basis for continuous implicit comparison based on common concepts and hypotheses as well as explicit comparison through systematic within-case and across case-comparison. These comparative efforts are targeted at the core areas of theoretical emphases within the ACF, including advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning, and policy change. Based on a review of previous applications of the ACF from around the world, the chapter discusses areas of progress related to the comparative research agenda within the ACF and identifies issues and questions where more work is needed to advance this research agenda further. Several aspects of the ACF have been important in supporting comparative perspectives of the policy process, including descriptions of the nature and evolution of policy subsystems, conceptual development to account for similarities and differences in the attributes of policy subsystems, and testing of hypotheses about coalitions, learning, and policy change. The chapter concludes by outlining five suggestions for further advancing comparative policy process research within the ACF: thinking about concrete subsets of cases, maintaining conceptual consistency, sharing of best practices for overcoming barriers to comparison across cases, identifying key attributes of political systems shaping policy subsystems, and taking inspiration from other fields.
|
|
| 7. |
- Nohrstedt, Daniel, 1974-, et al.
(författare)
-
The Advocacy Coalition Framework : Progress and Emerging Areas
- 2023. - 5
-
Ingår i: Theories of the Policy Process. - London : Routledge. - 9781032311241 ; , s. 130-150
-
Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- 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, including its assumptions and theories of advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning, and policy change. In doing so, it summarizes what is known about the policy processes under this approach based on the empirical applications that span the globe on various topics and using diverse methods. The chapter ends by identifying emerging areas ripe for continued development and offering advice to people interested in contributing to the ACF’s research program.
|
|
| 8. |
- Nohrstedt, Daniel, et al.
(författare)
-
The Logic of Policy Change after Crisis : Proximity and Subsystem Interaction
- 2010
-
Ingår i: Risk, Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy. - Berkeley, Califonia : Berkeley Electronic Press. - 1944-4079. ; 1:2, s. 1-32
-
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.
|
|
| 9. |
|
|
| 10. |
- Weible, Christopher, et al.
(författare)
-
Covid-19 and the policy sciences : initial reactions and perspectives
- 2020
-
Ingår i: Policy sciences. - : Springer Nature. - 0032-2687 .- 1573-0891. ; 53:2, s. 225-241
-
Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The world is in the grip of a crisis that stands unprecedented in living memory. The COVID-19 pandemic is urgent, global in scale, and massive in impacts. Following Harold D. Lasswell’s goal for the policy sciences to offer insights into unfolding phenomena, this commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19. We explore the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments. We discuss varied processes of adaptation and change, including learning, surges in policy responses, alterations in networks (locally and globally), implementing policies across transboundary issues, and assessing policy success and failure. We conclude by identifying understudied aspects of the policy sciences that deserve attention in the pandemic’s aftermath.
|
|
