Evaluating the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Hank C. Jenkins-Smith and Paul A. Sabatier

Journal of Public Policy, 1994, vol. 14, issue 2, 175-203

Abstract: The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) was developed to provide a causal theory of the policy process which would serve as one of several alternatives to the familiar stages heuristic, with its recognized limitations. This paper first summarizes the central features of the ACF, including a set of underlying assumptions and specific hypotheses. We next review the implications for the framework of six case studies by various authors dealing with Canadian education and with American transportation, telecommunications, water, environmental, and energy policy. While generally supportive of the ACF, the case studies also suggest several revisions.

Date: 1994
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