A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent Policy Subsystems Toward Stable Advocacy Coalitions, With Evidence From the UK's Response to COVID‐19.

Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their favor. While numerous studies have focused on the longe...

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Publicado en:Policy Studies Journal Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 1 - 17
Autores principales: Garic, Kristijan, Leifeld, Philip
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Feb2026
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          Garic, Kristijan
          Leifeld, Philip
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          Department of Government and Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Essex, Colchester, UK
          Department of Social Statistics, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
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        United Kingdom
        COVID-19 pandemic
        Discourse analysis
        Policy sciences
        Coalitions
        Advocacy coalition framework
        British history
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          COVID-19 pandemic
          Discourse analysis
          Policy sciences
          Coalitions
          United Kingdom
          Advocacy coalition framework
          British history
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        advocacy coalition
        COVID‐19
        discourse network analysis
        nascent subsystem
        policy beliefs
        advocacy coalition
        COVID‐19
        discourse network analysis
        nascent subsystem
        policy beliefs
      ab: Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their favor. While numerous studies have focused on the longevity and structural stability of advocacy coalitions, there is scant theory and evidence on how nascent policy subsystems bifurcate into stable, competing coalitions. This article proposes a three‐stage model of problem discovery, differentiation, and consolidation. We apply discourse network analysis to the nascent subsystem of the UK's COVID‐19 response in order to study these phases and discuss their applicability and implications for other institutional and issue contexts.
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