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Policy making and collective action: defining coalitions within the advocacy coalition framework

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An advocacy coalitions (AC) framework for the study of the process of policy making may provide stronger explanations than frameworks grounded exclusively in instrumental reality. The AC framework can more fully realize its potential by incorporating the explanations of collective actions from frameworks based on rationality. This type of research on policy communities, policy networks, and advocacy coalitions demonstrates the determined efforts on the part of the policy scholars to authentically describe the complex, dynamic policy making process of modern societies.

Influence, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Policy scientists, Pressure groups, Special interest groups

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The selection of policy instruments: a network-based perspective

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The selection of various types of policy instruments by governments is examined by employing a simple typology of policy networks. A number of instrument features are taken into account for the predicted effect of network characteristics. Further, a set of propositions is introduced that matches levels of network relationship and cohesion with the selection of various types of instruments including regulations, covenants and subsidies.

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Decision-making in the Swiss energy policy elite

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An analysis of Swiss energy policy and decision-making within the context of rational choice theory is presented, focusing on the characteristics and motivations of the actors involved in the policy-making process. Topics addressed include value and instrumentally rational choice behavior.

Switzerland, Statistical Data Included, Energy policy, Political sociology, Choice (Psychology), Industrial sociology

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