Advocacy Coalition Framework
The Advocacy Coalition Framework, as developed by Dr. Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith, has been studied all around the world.
 

 
Research applying the ACF in a critical fashion is divided into three categories as seen below. "Research by Authors" and "Applications by Other Scholars but Solicited by the Authors" are both links to another part of Dr. Sabatier's webpage. "Applications by Other Scholars at their Own Initiative," however, is detailed below due to the worldwide range of study.
Research by Authors
Applications by Other Scholars but Solicited by the Authors
Applications by Other Scholars at their Own Initiative (scroll down about an inch)
 

Published Papers and Research in Progress
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 Theoretical Contributions
Published
1. Sabatier, Paul. 1986. "Top-Down and Bottom-Up Models of Policy Implementation: A Critical Analysis and Suggested Synthesis," Journal of Public Policy 6 (January):21-48.

2. Sabatier, Paul. 1987. "Knowledge, Policy-Oriented Learning, and Policy Change," Knowledge 8 (June): 649-692.

3. Jenkins-Smith, Hank. 1988. "Analytical Debates and Policy Learning: Analysis and Change in the Federal Bureaucracy," Policy Sciences 21:169-212

4. Sabatier, Paul. 1988. "An Advocacy Coalition Framework of Policy Change and the Role of Policy-Oriented Learning Therein," Policy Sciences 21:129-168.

5. Sabatier, Paul, and Hank Jenkins-Smith, eds. 1988. "Special Issue: Policy Change and Policy-Oriented Learing: Exploring an Advocacy Coalition Framework," Policy Sciences 21:123-278.

6. Jenkins-Smith, Hank. 1990. Democratic Politics and Policy Analysis. Pacific Grove, Calif.: Brooks/Cole.
 
7. Bennett, Colin, and Michael Howlett. 1992. "The Lessons of Learning: Reconciling Theories of Policy Learning and Policy Change," Policy Sciences 25:275-294.

8. May, Peter. 1992. "Policy Learning and Failure," Journal of Public Policy 12(4):331-354.

9. Sabatier, Paul, and Hank Jenkins-Smith, eds. 1993. Policy Change and Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach. Boulder: Westview Press.

10. Jenkins-Smith, Hank, and Paul Sabatier. 1994. "Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework," Journal of Public Policy 14:175-203.

11. Parsons, Wayne. 1995. Public Policy. Cheltenham, England: Edward Elgar, pp. 

12. Radaelli, Claudio. 1995. "The Role of Knowledge in the Policy Process," Journal of European Public Policy 2 (June):159-183.

13. Schlager, Edella. 1995. "Policy Making and Collective Action: Defining Coalitions within the Advocacy Coalition Framework," Policy Sciences 28:242-270. 

14. Schlager, Edella, and William Blomquist. 1996. "A Comparison of Three Emerging Theories of the Policy Process," Political Research Quarterly 49 (Sept.):651-672. [University of Arizona, Indiana University]

15. Bergeron, Henri, Yves Surel, and Jerome Valluy. 1998. "L"Advocacy Coalition Framework," Politix, No. 41: 195-223. 

16. John, Peter. 1998. Analyzing Public Policy. London: Pinter. pp.

17. Sabatier, Paul. 1998a. The Advocacy Coalition Framework: Revisions and Relevance for Europe," Journal of European Public Policy 5 (March): 98-130.

18. Sabatier, Paul. 1998b. "The Political Context of Evaluation Research: An Advocacy Coalition Perspective." In M.-C Kessler, P. Lascoumes, M. Setbon, and J.-C. Thoenig, eds., Evaluation des politques publiques, pp. 129-146. Paris: L'Harmattan.

19. Bergeron, Henri, Yves Surel, and Jerome Valluy. 1998. "L'Advocacy Coalition Framework, Une contribution au renouvellement des etudes de politiques publiques?" Politix, n41, pp. 195 a 223. [Centre de sociologie des organisations, CNRS]

20. Fenger, Menno, and Pieter-Jan Klok. 2001. "Interdependency, beliefs, and coalition behavior: A contribution to the advocacy framework." Policy Sciences 34: 157-170. [Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands]

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          In Progress

United States

1. Sabatier, Paul.  An Advocacy Coalition Lens on Environmental Policy. Chapter 6. MIT Press.

 

Empirical Work Published by Region
  
Australia/New Zealand
1. Shannon, Elizabeth. 1997. "Inching Towards Equality: Equal Pay in Australia and Ireland, 1969-1996." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Political Science, University of Tasmania.
 
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Asia/Africa/Latin America
 
Canada
1. Mawhinney, Hanne. 1993. "An Advocacy Coalition Approach to Change in Canadian Education." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 52-82. Boulder: Westview Press.
 
 
2. Lertzman, Ken, Jeremy Rayner, and Jeremy Wilson. 1996. "Learning and Change in the British Columbia Forest Policy Sector: A Consideration of Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework," Canadian Journal of Political Science 29 (March):111-133.
 
 
3. Wellstead, Adam. 1996. The Role of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in Understanding Forest Policy Changes: Alberta and Ontario. Unpublished master's thesis, Graduate Department of Forestry, University of Toronto.  

4. Kuebler, Daniel. 1998. "Ideas as Catalytic Elements for Policy Change: Advocacy Coalitions and Drug Policy in Switzerland." In D. Braun and A. Busch, eds., The Power if Ideas: Policy Ideas and Policy Change. London: Routledge. 

5. Wellstead, A.M., D.J. Davidson, and R.C. Stedman. 2004. "Assessing Prairie Forest Policy Networks and Policy Oriented Beliefs".  Natural Resources Canada, Canadian Forest Service. Information Report NOR-X-395

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Europe
 
1. Dudley, Geoffrey, and Jeremy Richardson. 1996. "What Does Policy Change over Time? Adversarial Policy Communities, Alternative Policy Arenas, and British Trunk Roads Policy, 1945-95," Journal of European Public Policy 3 (March):63-83.
 
 
2. Eberg, Jan. 1997. "Waste Policy and Learning, Policy Dynamics of Waste Management and Waste Incineration in the Netherlands and Bavaria." Uitgeverij Eburon

3. Radealli, Claudio, and Alberto Martini. 1997. "Think Tanks, Advocacy Coalitions, and Policy Change: A First Look at the Italian Case." In D. Stone, M. Garnett, and A. Denham, eds., Think Tanks in Comparative Perspective: Insiders or Outsiders? Manchester, England: Manchester University Press. 

4. Elliot, Chris. 1998. "Forest Certification in Indonesia, Canada, and Sweden." Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Environmental management, Swiss Institute of Technology, Lausanne. 
 
5. van Muijen, Marie-Louise. 1998. Better Safe Than Provocative. Amsterdam: VU University Press.

6. Andersson, Magnus. 1999. "Change and Continuity in Poland's Environmental Policy." Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 191 [Wageningen University]

7. Jordan, Andrew, and Timothy O'Riordan. 1999. Environmental politics and policy processes.  Environmental Science for Environmental Management. Ch. 3 [School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Angila, Norwich]. 

8. Elliot, Chris, and Rodolphe Schlaepfer. "The advocacy coalition framework: application to the policy process for the development of forest certification in Sweden." Journal of European Public Policy 8:4 pp. 642-661. [ World Wildlife Fund, Switzerland] 

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United States

1. Sabatier, Paul, Susan Hunter, and Susan McLaughlin. 1987. "The Devil Shift: Perceptions and Misperceptions of Opponents," Western Political Quarterly 41 (Sept.): 449-476.

2. Davis, Charles, and Sandra Davis. 1988. "Analyzing Change in Public Lands Policy Making: From Subsystems to Advocacy Coalitions," Policy Studies Journal 17 (fall):3-24. 

3. Heintz, Theodore. 1988. "Advocacy Coalitions an the OCS Leasing Debate: A Case Study in Policy Evolution," Policy Sciences 21:213-238

4. Lester, James, and Michael Hamilton. 1988. "Intergovernmental Relations and Marine Policy Change: Ocean Dumping and At-Sea Incineration of Hazardous Waste." In Ocean Maynard Silva, ed., Resources and U.S. Intergovernmental Relations in the 1980's, pp. 197-220. Boulder: Westview Press.

5. Weyent, John. 1988. "Is There Policy-Oriented Learning in the Analysis of Natural Gas Policy Issues?" Policy Sciences 21 (fall):239-262.

6. Sabatier, Paul, and Susan Hunter. 1989. "The Incorporation of Causal Perceptions into Models of Elite Belief Systems," Western Political Quarterly 42 (Sept.):229-261. 

7. Jenkins-Smith, Hank. 1991 "Alternative Theories of the Policy process: Reflections on Research Strategy for the Study of Nuclear Waste Policy," PS: Political Science and Politics 24 (June):157-166.

8. Jenkins-Smith, Hank, and Gilbert St. Clair, and Brian Woods. 1991. "Explaining Change in Policy Subsystems: Analysis of Coalition Stability and Defection over Time," American Journal of Political Science 35 (4): 851-872.

9. Leek, Mark. 1991. "A Mental Representation Approach to Health Policy Analysis." Springer-Verlag. pp.163-192. [John Hopkins University]

10. Stewart, Joseph. 1991. "Policy Models and Equal Educational Opportunity," PS: Political Science and Politics 26 (June):167-173.

11. Barke, Richard. 1993. "Managing Technological Change in Federal Communications Policy: The Role of Industry Advisory Groups." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 129-146. Boulder: Westview Press.

12. Barke, Richard, and Jenkins-Smith. 1993. "Politics and Scientific Expertise: Scientists, Risk Perceptions, and Nucular Waste Policy," Risk Analysis (October).

13. Brown, Anthony E., and Joseph Stewart. 1993. "Competing Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Evolution, and Airline Deregulation." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 83-104. Boulder: Westview Press.

14. Jenkins-Smith, Hank, and Gilbert St. Clair. 1993. "The Politics of Offshore Energy: Empirically Testing the Advocacy Coalition Framework." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 149-176. Boulder: Westview Press.

15. Munro, John. 1993. "California water Politics: Explaining Policy Change in a Cognitively Polarized Subsystem." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 105-128. Boulder: Westview Press.

16. Sabatier, Paul, and Anne Brasher. 1993. "From Vague Consensus to Clearly-Differentiated Coalitions: Environmental Policy at Lake Tahoe, 1964-85." In P. Sabatier and H. Jenkins-Smith, eds., Policy Change and Learning, pp. 149-176. Boulder: Westview Press.

17. Grant, Wyn. 1995. Autos, Smog, and Pollution Control. Aldershot, England: Edward Elgar.

18. Sabatier, Paul, and Matthew Zafonte. 1995. "The Views of Bay/Delta Water Policy Activists on Endangered Species Issues," Hastings West-Northwest Journal of Environmental Law and Policy 2 (Winter): 131-146. [University of California, Davis]

19. Mintrom, Michael and Sandra Vergari. 1996. "Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change," Policy Studies Journal 24 (fall): 20-434.  [Michigan State, University of Northern Iowa]

20. Ellison, Brian. 1998. "Intergovernmental relations and the advocacy coalition framework: The operation of federalism in Denver water politics." Publius, 28,4: 35-54 [Southwest Missouri State University]

21. Ellison, Brian. 1998. "The Advocacy Coalition Framework and implementation of the Endangered Species Act: A Case Study in Western Water Politics." Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 26, No. 1. [Southwest Missouri State University]

22. Thomas, Gerald. 1998. "Analyzing Environmental Policy Change: U.S. Landsat Policy, 1964-98." Ph.D. dissertation, Colorado State University, Ft. Collins. 

23. Zafonte, Matthew, and Paul Sabatier. 1998. "Shared Beliefs and Imposed Interdependencies as Determinants of Ally Networks in Overlapping Subsystems," Journal of Theoretical Politics 10(4):473-505.

24. Litfin, Karen. 2000. "Advocacy Coalitions Along the Domestic-Foreign Frontier: Globalization and Canadian Climate Change Policy." Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 28, No. 1, (236-253). [University of Washington]

25. Butnett, Miles, and Charles Davis. 2002. "Getting Out The Cut, Politics and National Forest Timber Harvest, 1960-1995." Administration & Society, Vol. 34 No. 2, pp. 202-228. [California Environmental Protection Agency, Colorado State University]

26. Freudenburg, William, and Robert Gramling. 2002. "How Crude: Advocacy coalitions, offshore oil, and the self-negating belief." Policy Sciences 35: 17-41. [University of Wisconsin, University of Louisiana-Lafayette]

27. Leschine, Thomas, Kent Lind and Rishi Sharma. 2003. "Beliefs, Values, and Technical Assessment in Environmental Management: Contaminated Sediments in Puget Sound." Coastal Management, 31: 1-24 [School of Marine Affairs, University of Washington]

28. Sobeck, Joanne. 2003. "Comparing Policy Process Frameworks, What Do They Tell Us About Group Membership and Participation for Policy Development?" Administration & Society, Vol. 35 No. 3, 350-374. [Wayne State University]

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Empirical Work in Progress by Region

Last Updated August 2004

 
Australia/New Zealand

1. Morrow, Ann. 2002. "Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to a Study of Dominant Education Policy Themes in Australia." Ph.D. Dissertation in Progress.

Asia/Africa/Latin America

1. Flora, Cornelia, and Jan Flora, Florencia Campana, and Edith Fernandez-Baca. "The Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Theoretical Frame for SAMREM to Address Policy Change and Learning." Cultivating Community Capital. [Instiituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos, Quito, Ecquador] [Iowa State]

Canada

1. Hoberg, George. 1998. "Distinguishing Learning from Other Sources of Policy Change: The Case of Forestry in the Pacific Northwest." Prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Boston, MA. [University of British Columbia]

Europe

1. Loeber, Anne, and John Grin 2004. "From Phosphate Policy to Eutrophication Control: Policy Change and Learning in the Netherlands, 1977-89." In P. Sabatier, ed., An ACF Lens on Environmental Policy. In Progress.

2. Nohrstadt, Daniel.

3. Swedish Nuclear Power

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United States

1. Baird, Karen. 1997. "Women's Health and Medical Research Policies: The Role of the NIH and FDA, A Test of the Advocacy Coalition and Policy Streams Models of Policymaking." Paper was prepared for delivery at the Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, Washington D.C. [Division of Social Science, Purchase College, SUNY]

2. Herron, Kerry, Hank Jenkins-Smith, and Carol Silva. 1999. "Scientists, Belief Systems, and Advocacy Coalitions in Environmental Policy" In Paul Sabatier, ed., An ACF Lens on Environmental Policy, In Review.

3. Sewell, Granville. 1999. "Advocacy Coalitions and the Implementation of the Framework Convention on Climate Change: A Preliminary Analysis." In P. Sabatier, ed., In Progress

4. Sabatier, Paul, and Matthew Zafonte.1999. "Are Bureaucrats and Scientists Members of Advocacy Coalitions?" In Paul Sabatier, ed., An Advocacy Coalition Lens on Environmental Policy. In Review.

5. Sabatier, Paul, Matthew Zafonte, and Michael Gjerde. 1999. "Coalition Stability in U.S. Automotive Pollution Control Policy." In Paul Sabatier, ed., An Advocacy Coalition Lens on Environmental Policy. In Review.

6. Leschine, Tom, Kent Lind, and Rishi Sharma. 2003. "Beliefs, Values, and Technical Assessments in Environmental Management: Contaminated Sediments in Puget Sound." Coastal Management, 31: 1-24.

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We are currently trying to establish a database of parties interested in the ACF. We will have this available for you on this site as soon as possible.
To find more information on the Advocacy Coalition Framework, please send a message to Paul Sabatier at pasabatier@ucdavis.edu
 
 

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