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The Intersection of Narrative Policy Analysis and Policy Change Theory
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This paper proposed an integration of narrative policy analysis and policy change theory through an empirical analysis of the narrative political strategies of two interest groups involved in policy debate and change over an eight-year period in the Greater Yellowstone Area.Abstract:
Narrative policy analysis and policy change theory rarely intersect in the literature. This research proposes an integration of these approaches through an empirical analysis of the narrative political strategies of two interest groups involved in policy debate and change over an eight-year period in the Greater Yellowstone Area. Three research questions are explored: (i) Is it possible to reconcile these seemingly disparate approaches? (ii) Do policy narrative strategies explain how interest groups expand or contain policy issues despite divergent core policy beliefs? (3) How does this new method of analysis add to the literature? One hundred and five documents from the Greater Yellowstone Coalition and the Blue Ribbon Coalition were content analyzed for policy narrative strategies: identification of winners and losers, diffusion or concentration of costs and benefits, and use of condensation symbols, policy surrogates, and science. Five of seven hypotheses were confirmed while controlling for presidential administration and technical expertise. The results indicate that interest groups do use distinctive narrative strategies in the turbulent policy environment.read more
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Themes and Variations: Taking Stock of the Advocacy Coalition Framework
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.
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A Narrative Policy Framework: Clear Enough to Be Wrong?
Michael D. Jones,Mark K. McBeth +1 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that policy narratives can be studied using systematic empirical approaches and introduce a Narrative Policy Framework (NPF) for elaboration and empirical testing, which defines narrative structure and narrative content.
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Policy Narratives and Policy Processes
TL;DR: 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 as discussed by the authors, and 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.
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An Angel on the Wind: How Heroic Policy Narratives Shape Policy Realities
TL;DR: The authors examined the role of policy narratives in the policy process and examined the extent to which a coalition tells the same story across narrative elements, narrative strategies, and policy beliefs in a case study of wind turbines off Nantucket.
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The Logic of Policy Change after Crisis : Proximity and Subsystem Interaction
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of policy and geographical proximity as a means to show how different types of crises alter the incentives for policy action within policy subsystems, and discuss an integrated set of proposals on how geographical and policy proximity affects the prospects of change in a policy subsystem.
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TL;DR: Baumgartner and Jones as mentioned in this paper extended their work to illuminate the workings of democracies beyond the United States and pointed out that short-term, single-issue analysis cast public policy too narrowly as the result of cozy and dependable arrangements among politicians, interest groups, and the media.
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Policy Paradox: The Art of Political Decision Making
TL;DR: Policy Paradox as discussed by the authors shows students that politics cannot be cleansed from the process in favor of "rationality." Author Deborah Stone has fully revised and updated this popular text, which now includes many paradoxes that have arisen since September 11.
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Policy Change And Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach
TL;DR: The Advocacy Coalition Framework as discussed by the authors has been used to measure longitudinal change in elite beliefs using content analysis of public documents. But it has not yet been applied to the analysis of Canadian education.