Negotiating the supply of legal timber to the domestic market in Ghana: Explaining policy change intent using the Advocacy Coalition Framework

Emmanuel Marfo and James P. Mckeown

Forest Policy and Economics, 2013, vol. 32, issue C, 23-31

Abstract: Negotiating a policy change involves formation of coalitions of actors in a particular policy subsystem with substantial mobilisation of resources to deploy strategic actions to direct the outcome of the process to a certain interest. The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has been demonstrated as a useful heuristic framework to explain policy change within a particular political system. This study applies the ACF to the negotiation of a policy change for the supply of timber to the domestic market in Ghana. The study largely confirms selected coalition hypotheses and makes a contribution to a possible revision of some of them.

Keywords: Advocacy Coalition Framework; Forest policy; Forest governance; Domestic timber market; Ghana (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.forpol.2012.12.007

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