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The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has influenced a generation of policy scholars with its emphasis on causal drivers, testable hypotheses, and falsification. Until recently, the role of policy narratives has been largely neglected in ACF literature partially because much of that work has operated outside of traditional social science principles, such as falsification. Yet emerging literature under the rubric of Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) demonstrates how the role of policy narratives in policy processes is studied using the same rigorous social science standards initially set forth by Paul A. Sabatier. The NPF identifies theories specifying narrative elements and strategies that are likely useful to ACF researchers as classes of variables that have yet to be integrated. Examining this proposition, we provide seven hypotheses related to critical ACF concepts including advocacy coalitions and policy beliefs, policy learning, public opinion, and strategy. Our goal is to stay within the scientific, theoretical, and methodological tradition of the ACF and show how NPF's empirical, hypotheses, and causal driven work on policy narratives identifies theories applicable to ACF research while also offering an independent framework capable of explaining the policy process through the power of policy narratives. In doing so, we believe both ACF and NPF scholarship can contribute to the advancement of our understanding of the policy process.

"Public policy can be considered a design science. It involves identifying relevant problems, selecting instruments to address the problem, developing institutions for managing the intervention, and creating means of assessing the design. Policy design has become an increasingly challenging task, given the emergence of numerous 'wicked' and complex problems. Much of policy design has adopted a technocratic and engineering approach, but there is an emerging literature that builds on a more collaborative and prospective approach to design. This book will discuss these issues in policy design and present alternative approaches to design."--Publisher's description

Identifies changes in EPA hazardous waste enforcement policy and factors influencing them.

Der Beitrag vermittelt einen Überblick über Mechanismen, Bedingungsfaktoren und Ergebnisse dynamischer Prozesse der Entwicklung und Verbreitung von Politik. Es werden Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede zwischen den Konzepten der Policy-Diffusion und des Policy-Transfers erörtert. Es folgt eine Typologie möglicher Mechanismen des Policy-Transfers, die auf der Grundlage einer Zusammenschau von Forschungsarbeiten der Vergleichenden Politikwissenschaft und Policy-Forschung, der Europaforschung und der Internationalen Beziehungen entwickelt wird. Begünstigende Faktoren von Transferprozessen werden erörtert. (GB)