Trans-Subsystem Dynamics: Policy Topography, Mass Opinion, and Policy Change.
We argue that the treatment of trans-subsystem change, and particularly the role of public opinion in fostering such change, within the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been underspecified. We propose a model of “policy topography” that combines the concepts of public opinion, clusters of link...
| Published in: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 37; no. 1; pp. 37 - 59 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2009
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