This article provides an overview of the structure and evolution of the Institutional Analysis and Development (IAD) framework and a short introduction to its use by scholars to analyze a diversity of puzzles. It then addresses the relationship of IAD to a more complex framework for the analysis of social‐ecological systems and concludes with a…
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Policy Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed journal published by Wiley, covering Public Policy and Administration Research, Policy Transfer and Learning, Local Government Finance and Decentralization.
| Publisher | Wiley |
|---|---|
| Reference style | Author–year (Chicago) Author–year — (Smith, 2023) in the text Smith, Ada, Ben Jones, and Cara Lee. 2023. "A Representative Article Title." Policy Studies Journal 12 (3): 45–58.
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| Publishes research in | Public Policy and Administration Research Policy Transfer and Learning Local Government Finance and Decentralization Electoral Systems and Political Participation Political Influence and Corporate Strategies |
| ISSN | 0190-292X |
| Citation impact (2-yr) | 2.72 |
| h-index | 123 |
| i10-index | 1,139 |
| Total citations | 77,069 |
| Article processing charge | $3,860 |
| Top institutions publishing here | University of Colorado Denver |
| Journal website | onlinelibrary.wiley.com |
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This article reviews the concept of policy entrepreneurship and its use in explaining policy change. Although the activities of policy entrepreneurs have received close attention in several studies, the concept of policy entrepreneurship is yet to be broadly integrated within analyses of policy change. To facilitate more integration of the concept, we here show how…
Narratives are increasingly subject to empirical study in a wide variety of disciplines. However, in public policy, narratives are thought of almost exclusively as a poststructural concept outside the realm of empirical study. In this paper, after reviewing the major literature on narratives, we argue that policy narratives can be studied using systematic empirical approaches…
A policy process framework that has been developed to simplify the complexity of public policy is the advocacy coalition framework (ACF). This essay reports on an analysis of 80 applications of the ACF spanning nearly 20 years. The review shows that the ACF is applicable to various substantive topics, across various geographical areas, and with…