Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation and policy actors' coalition behavior around hydropower development in the Mekong countries: Testing the impact of coalition opportunity structures.
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) literature has long discussed coalition opportunity structures' (COSs) ability to shape the composition, resources, and strategies of coalitions. Yet, more empirical work is needed to understand how COSs explain coalition behavior across political systems. Guid...
| Publicado en: | Review of Policy Research Vol. 43; no. 1; pp. 1 - 34 |
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| fields | @attributes: recordID: 1 pdfLink: plink: https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=ssf&AN=191182825&site=ehost-live header: @attributes: shortDbName: ssf uiTerm: 191182825 longDbName: Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson) uiTag: AN controlInfo: bkinfo: jinfo: jid: 1541132X MJJ jtl: Review of Policy Research issn: 1541132X maglogo: Y pubinfo: dt: Jan2026 vid: 43 iid: 1 pid: 480 pub: Wiley-Blackwell artinfo: ui: 191182825 10.1111/ropr.12638 ppf: 1 ppct: 33 formats: fmt: – @attributes: type: T – @attributes: type: P size: 406KB tig: atl: Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation and policy actors' coalition behavior around hydropower development in the Mekong countries: Testing the impact of coalition opportunity structures. aug: au: He, Linlang Wills, Kate Benson, Claire Flaim, Amanda affil: Department of Public Administration, University of North Texas, Denton Texas,, USA School of Law, University of Virginia, Charlottesville Virginia,, USA James Madison College, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan,, USA Department of Sociology, Michigan State University, East Lansing Michigan,, USA su: Mekong River Coalitions Political systems Regional cooperation Advocacy coalition framework Subnational governments Water power Countries sug: subj: Coalitions Political systems Regional cooperation Mekong River Hydroelectric Power Generation Advocacy coalition framework Subnational governments Water power Countries keyword: Advocacy Coalition Framework coalition opportunity structure coalition strategy comparative policy process coordination networks hydropower development media content analysis análisis de contenido de los medios desarrollo de energía hidroeléctrica estrategia de coalición estructura de oportunidades de coalición Marco de coalición de promoción proceso comparativo de políticas redes de coordinación 倡导联盟框架 协调网络 媒体内容分析 比较政策过程 水电开发 联盟战略 联盟机会结构 Advocacy Coalition Framework coalition opportunity structure coalition strategy comparative policy process coordination networks hydropower development media content analysis análisis de contenido de los medios desarrollo de energía hidroeléctrica estrategia de coalición estructura de oportunidades de coalición Marco de coalición de promoción proceso comparativo de políticas redes de coordinación 倡导联盟框架 协调网络 媒体内容分析 比较政策过程 水电开发 联盟战略 联盟机会结构 ab: The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) literature has long discussed coalition opportunity structures' (COSs) ability to shape the composition, resources, and strategies of coalitions. Yet, more empirical work is needed to understand how COSs explain coalition behavior across political systems. Guided by the ACF, this study uses English newspaper articles from the lower Mekong countries to analyze the composition of coalitions and policy actors' coalition behavior in these countries' hydropower policy subsystem around the establishment of the Lancang‐Mekong Cooperation (LMC), a China‐led initiative for regional governance. Our results reveal significant variations in COSs across the countries we studied. These variations in COSs help explain some of the observed differences in the composition of coalitions and non‐state actors' coalition strategies across these countries. Moreover, despite operating within authoritarian regimes with generally restrictive COSs, members of various advocacy coalitions actively adjust their short‐term coordination networks following LMC's establishment. Our study contributes to the thin literature on COSs' utility in explaining coalition behavior and enriches ACF's application in non‐democratic political systems. Our study also helps understand the influence of subregional collaborative frameworks on hydropower development in the Mekong region. pubtype: Academic Journal doctype: Article src: R language: English refInfo: copyright: @attributes: flag: N holdings: @attributes: islocal: N |
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