Reconceptualizing Major Policy Change in the Advocacy Coalition Framework: A Discourse Network Analysis of German Pension Politics.
How does major policy change come about? This article identifies and rectifies weaknesses in the conceptualization of innovative policy change in the Advocacy Coalition Framework. In a case study of policy belief change preceding an innovative reform in the German subsystem of old-age security, impo...
| Publicado en: | Policy Studies Journal Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 169 - 199 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
Feb2013
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