Policy Change And Learning: An Advocacy Coalition Approach (Theoretical Lenses on Public Policy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0813316499 ISBN 13: 9780813316499

Publisher: Westview Press, 1993

Synopsis

The field of public policy analysis is undergoing major change and development in the theories its practitioners employ and the way those theories are tested. In this book, the contributors clearly lay out the advocacy coalition approach to public policy analysis and apply it to a variety of public policy problems and arenas. In the process of looking at case studies in education, airline deregulation, communications, energy, and the environment, Sabatier and Jenkins-Smith offer the fullest exposition and application of the advocacy coalition framework to date, revising the approach in significant ways for future research and analysis.

Students are treated to a textbook example of how theory illuminates the policy world, while scholars and policy makers are brought up-to-date on developments in the advocacy coalition framework and its potential to account for many factors that elude the classic stages model of agenda setting, formulation, and implementation. Tables, figures, and a methodological appendix enhance the teaching value of the text.

About this title

About the Author:

Paul A. Sabatier is political scientist and professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Davis. Paul A. Sabatier is professor of environmental studies at the University of California, Davis. Hank C. Jenkins-Smith is associate professor of political science at the University of New Mexico.

About this edition

• Publisher: Westview Press
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0813316499
• ISBN 13: 9780813316499
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Sabatier Paul A