Introduction
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) is a theoretical framework of the policy process designed to examine how groups, called coalitions, form around common belief systems, and how they interact with allied and opposing coalitions to influence public policymaking. The ACF simultaneously acknowledges that actors and individuals influence the policy environment by incorporating beliefs influenced by the larger cultural and social environment of which they are a part. Early conceptions of issue networks focused on the impacts of formal government actors, which examines the interactions and impacts of administrative agencies, legislative subcommittees, and interest groups. The ACF expands the scope of such networks to include any number of governmental programs, agencies, and policies, as well as non-government actors such as citizen activists and advocacy groups. Thus, at its core, the strength of the ACF is that it recognizes that diverse coalitions of actors that extend...
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Gabehart, K.M., Weible, C.M. (2023). Advocacy Coalition Framework. In: van Gerven, M., Rothmayr Allison, C., Schubert, K. (eds) Encyclopedia of Public Policy. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90434-0_5-2
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