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Showing 1 to 20 of 29 for “"advocacy coalition framework"”.
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The Making of the Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000: Viewed Through the Lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
… the legislation passed quickly by an unlikely coalition of players. The purpose of this dissertation research was to gain insight into the forces which led to the making of the TVPA through the lens of the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) model of the policy making process.The ACF's focus on …
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Facilitating policy formulation and policy implementation : a case study of policy on the prevention of mother to child HIV transmission in South Africa
… child HIV transmission (PMTCT). It employs the advocacy coalition framework developed by Paul Sabatier to analyse the factors that have hindered and facilitated the alteration and subsequent implementation of PMTCT policy. It provides a clear illustration of the impact that actors outside of the …
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The Double Edge: Contradictory Functions of Civil Society Organizations in the Tunisian Democratic Process
… associated contradictory results, employing Advocacy Coalition Framework as a lens through which to view Tunisia’s current public policy environment. Overall, the empirical and theoretical contribution of this dissertation will address a critical gap in the scholarly literature about the …
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Actors, coalitions and the framework convention on climate change
… the political processes through which the Framework Convention on Climate Change was negotiated and the initial efforts of the United States, the Netherlands, and Japan to adopt national policies and measures to implement it. Using the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as a theoretical …
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Pixelating Policy: Visualizing Issue Transformation In Real and Virtual Worlds
… transformation and policy change?" Using the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) for explaining policy change over considerable periods of time, this research identifies and examines the issues over which policy coalitions contend, and seeks to identify issue transformation in the IRM policy …
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Civic engagement in the age of devolution: how anthropological approaches can help navigate grassroots conflicts
… groups. I frame this conflict through the Advocacy Coalition Framework (Sabatier 2007) in order to map out the connections between neoliberal social policies and local level conflict.
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Negotiating identity within the Sustainable Agriculture Advocacy Coalition
Three prominent national coalition efforts to promote sustainable agriculture are examined: the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Integrated Farm and Food Systems Network, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education …
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The night - time economy in Sydney, Australia: policies and actors pre, during and post the Covid - 19 pandemic
… study draws upon an interdisciplinary analytical framework to investigate the Sydney’s NTE. The advocacy coalition framework was used to map out the policy actors and their beliefs. Policy entrepreneurship framework was used to investigate the actors’ strategies adopted to shape policy change. As …
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The Public-Private Dilemma: A Strategic Improvement Agenda for U.S. Department of Defense Depot Maintenance
… that draws upon Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is proposed to improve the situation. It addresses key problems identified in the analysis and rests upon an approach to strategic decision making that is politically rational in nature. This approach, called a …
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The Emergence of the Wyoming Core Area Strategy: "The Sage Grouse Rebellion"
… conservation plan. It presents a theoretical framework that is based on and adds nuance to the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). The hypothesis this study explored was: if a subsystem's jurisdiction is threatened by a hierarchically superior subsystem's policy outputs and this jurisdiction …
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Migration and Political Discourse: Comparing the Visegrad Group and European Union Institutional Narratives
… the study considers three interrelated frameworks to examine these dynamics: securitisation, agenda setting and the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Additionally, this study contributes to the academic literature by analysing the collective response of the Visegrad Group and the shift …
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Exploring the Use of a Gender Equity Lens in Local Government Recreation Policies
… on Merriam’s (2009) case study approach and the Advocacy Coalition Framework developed by Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith (1988) and adapted by Jenkins-Smith, Nohrstedt, Weible, and Sabatier (2014), the perspectives of ten recreation professionals within an Ontario local government recreation …
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'Agrarwende' : cognitive-normative approaches to policy change in German agro-biotechnology
… this purpose the thesis uses cognitive-normative frameworks, in particular Maarten Hajer's discourse analytical framework and Paul Sabatier's advocacy coalition framework. By looking at the German case of agro-biotech regulation the thesis asks, how can policy change be explained and illuminated …
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Ireland's knowledge economy policy: beliefs, drivers and prospects
… who follow and seek to influence decisions. The advocacy coalition framework is used to identify the advocacy coalition operating in the knowledge economy policy subsystem. The theoretical insights of this framework are also combined with other public policy approaches, providing complementary …
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An Elaboration and Analysis of Two Policy Implementation Frameworks to Better Understand Project Exile
… Multiple Streams model with Sabatier's (1999) Advocacy Coalition Framework to develop a "Specific Collins Classification and Elaboration Model" and a "Generic Collins Classification and Elaboration Model" that will be used to analyze the formation and implementation of Project Exile. The three …
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At the Intersection of Political Culture and the Policy Process: an Evolution of the Tennessee Value-Added Assessment System Through the Tennessee Legislature
… supported Lasswell's (1951) policy process framework and the ecological adaptation of Marshall, Mitchell and Wirt's policy actors model. The study was a retrospective case study employing semi-structured interviews, analysis of documents, and archival records. The following research …
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The EU & players’ agents: a theoretical analysis of the EU’s intervention into the regulation of players’ agents in Europe
… the EU policy actors of the socio-cultural advocacy coalition (the Education and Culture DG within the Commission, the Committee on Culture and Education in the European Parliament and the Member States) operating within the EU sports policy subsystem. The research conceptualizes the …
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The Role of Expert-based Information in Maritime Oil Spill Prevention Policy in the Puget Sound: How Risk Assessments Reflect the Larger Political Context
… and use. Guided by an expert-based information framework based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework, this thesis establishes the political context (policy subsystem) of oil spill prevention in the Puget Sound from 1975-2013 and relates it to the structure and use of selected risk assessments. …
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