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Dedication -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Advocacy Coalition Framework -- Policy Subsystems -- Policy Actors and Coalitions -- Policy Change or Continuation -- Two Guiding Questions -- Hydraulic Fracturing -- Plan of the Book -- United States of America -- Canada -- United Kingdom -- France -- Sweden -- Germany -- Switzerland -- Chapter Summary -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 2: Contours of Coalition Politics on Hydraulic Fracturing Within the United States of America -- Introduction

AbstractThe purpose of this essay is to analyze two theories. One is a relatively new approach called Instrument Constituencies. The other is an established approach called the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). This essay begins by comparing the two theories by an explicit set of criteria. It then lays out opportunities for refinement and advancement of Instrument Constituencies towards its better placement, usefulness, and longevity as a policy process theory. Research prospects at the intersection of Instrument Constituencies and the ACF are then presented with a set of research questions and hypotheses. This essay concludes with a summary of insights about the field of policy processes gained from this theoretical exploration. While there are opportunities for improvements and important caveats for consideration, this essay makes an optimistic argument for the potential of Instrument Constituencies to offer generalizable and context-specific knowledge in helping to advance policy process research.

This article reviews and synthesizes the uses of expert‐based information in policy subsystems. The review begins by summarizing the different uses of information in the multiple streams theory, the punctuated equilibrium theory, the social construction theory, and the advocacy coalition framework. Three uses of expert‐based information are identified as instrumental, learning, and political. The three uses of expert‐based information are then compared across unitary, collaborative, and adversarial policy subsystems. 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.

What factors explain stakeholder benefit–cost expectations for participating in a collaborative institution? This article examines this question by applying a version of the collective interest model. The case study includes original data from a mail-in questionnaire and in-person interviews of stakeholders' expectations before the start of a collaborative process to establish marine-protected areas in California. The results provide little support for the traditional variables in the collective interest model with null results for group and personal efficacy. Selective incentives, especially putting in your own time versus company time, are important in explaining stakeholders' benefit–cost expectations. The results show that ally efficacy is an important factor, suggesting that perceptions of allies compared to opponents shape initial expectations for a collaborative process. This article adds to the research on political participation in environmental management by presenting a rare exploration of ex ante beliefs before the start of a collaborative planning institution.

There is a growing recognition that public policy controversies are driven more by value differences than by technical deficiencies. Unfortunately, we have yet to develop, test, and refine systematic approaches for understanding political systems. In this article I explain how the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) can be used as a theoretical basis for understanding political context via a stakeholder analysis. An ACF stakeholder analysis 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. I illustrate an ACF approach to stakeholder analysis in a scientifically contentious political conflict over the establishment of marine protected areas in California. I conclude with a summary of contributions to the ACF literature and the strengths and limitations of conducting an ACF stakeholder analysis. Adapted from the source document.

Cover -- Endorsement -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Contributors -- 1 The Design of Policy Process Research -- Introduction -- Why This Book and Why Now? -- The Approaches and Data Science -- How Does This Book Relate to the Theories Book? -- Methods in the Context of Theory -- Research Programs and Culture -- Roadmap for Reasoning -- Research Questions and Scope -- Research Design as Comparison -- Measurement -- Choosing Indicators and Measures -- Validity and Reliability -- Tools of Analysis -- Descriptive Versus Causal Inference -- Dependence and Endogeneity -- Visualizing Data -- Up Ahead -- Notes -- References -- 2 How to Conduct a Multiple Streams Study -- Introduction -- From Theory to Application: Steps to a Solid MSF Analysis -- Develop Your Research Question(s) -- Specify MSF Hypotheses -- Operationalization Issues -- The Problem Stream -- The Policy Stream -- The Political Stream -- Policy Window -- Policy Entrepreneurs and Coupling -- Choose the Method That Best Matches Your Research Interest -- Qualitative MSF Research -- Quantitative MSF Research -- The Way Forward to Empirically Sound MSF Studies -- References -- Annex A: MSF Case Study Protocol Template -- Annex B: Sample Interview Questions for Designs Over Time and Single Issue/Sector - Past -- 3 The Code and Craft of Punctuated Equilibrium -- Introduction -- Chapter Roadmap -- Four Persistent Themes -- Text-as-Data -- Comparability Across Time and Space -- Collaboration With Machines -- Attention to Distributions of Change -- The Measurement System -- Conceptual Logic -- How to Compile a Data Set -- Descriptive Inference -- Describing Empirical Distributions -- Recipe for Comparison -- Examples of the Distributional Approach -- Agenda Composition and Diversity -- Theory Development and Testing.

"Since the first edition published in 1999 with editor Paul Sabatier, Theories of the Policy Process has served as the quintessential gateway to the field of policy process research for students, scholars and practitioners alike. This enduring and well-regarded volume provides a forum for the creators of, or scholars with deep expertise in, the most established and widely used theoretical frameworks to present the basic propositions, empirical evidence, latest updates, and promising directions for future research. This brief but comprehensive volume covers such classics as Multiple Streams (Zahariadis), Punctuated Equilibrium (Jones et al), Advocacy Coalition Framework (Jenkins-Smith et al.), Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (Ostrom et al.), Policy Diffusion (Berry & Berry), and Social Construction and Policy Design (Schneider et al). This thoroughly updated third edition, with new editor Christopher M. Weible, includes a new introduction on the trajectories and needs of public policy research and two new chapters-- Policy Feedback (Mettler and SoRelle) and Narrative Policy Framework (McBeth et al). A revised chapter presents a comparative analysis and evaluation of the frameworks included in this edition (Cairney & Heikkila), and a new conclusion looks at future directions and emerging areas in the field"--