There has been a great deal of research in recent years concerning the use of substantive
policy analysis in public policy-making. This paper seeks to integrate those findings - eg, the ‘…

… I also want to thank Peter deLeon, David Carter, Tanya Heikkila, Paul Cairney, and Kristin
… Finally, cheers to Paul Sabatier for inspiring many policy scholars to develop better theories …

This paper first reviews the implementation literature of the past fifteen years, with particular
emphasis on the relative strengths and weaknesses of the ‘top-down’ and ‘bottom-up’ …

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent
chapters of this book. The book provides the state of policy theory by presenting several of the …

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a framework of the policy process developed
by Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith to deal with "wicked" problems– those involving …

About two decades ago, Paul Sabatier (1991) urged scholars to develop better theories and
empirics for understanding policy processes. Sabatier’s proposition, in collaboration with …

Any theory of the manner in which governmental policies get formulated and implemented,
as well as the effects of those actions on the world, requires an understanding of the behavior …

A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public
policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). This essay reports on an analysis of 80 …

The advocacy coalition framework (ACF) has generated considerable interest among European
policy scholars. This article summarizes some of the more important findings concerning…

In recent years, water resource management in the United States has begun a shift away
from top-down, government agency-directed decision processes toward a collaborative …