Christopher M. Weible

TL;DR: The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) as mentioned in this paper is a framework of the policy process developed by Paul A. Sabatier and Hank Jenkins-Smith to deal with "wicked" problems, those involving substantial goal conflicts, important technical disputes, and multiple actors from several levels of government.

TL;DR: A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) as discussed by the authors, which is applicable to various substantive topics, across various geographical areas, and with other policy process theories and frameworks, including the stages heuristic.

TL;DR: This commentary draws on the lessons of the policy sciences literature to understand the dynamics related to COVID-19, exploring the ways in which scientific and technical expertise, emotions, and narratives influence policy decisions and shape relationships among citizens, organizations, and governments.

TL;DR: This article synthesizes the findings in a set of propositions about the use of expert-based information in policy subsystems and about the factors that contribute to shifts from one policy subsystem to another.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explain how the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) can be used as a theoretical basis for understanding political context via a stakeholder analysis, which widens the attention of policy analysts toward subsystem-wide dynamics with multiple actors who are motivated by their beliefs, structure their relationships into advocacy coalitions, and try to influence policy through utilizing multiple resources and venues.