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  title info:
    title: Advocacy coalitions and policy change in Africa
  name:
    name part: Osei-Kojo, Alex
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Weible, Christopher M.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2026
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource : illustrations (some color).
  abstract: "Although the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades, systematic efforts to test the extent to which the framework is applicable to Africa's context are limited. This situation stifles the growth of African policy process scholarship and hampers the production of generalizable knowledge. This volume addresses this empirical gap by answering two interrelated research questions: what are the characteristics of advocacy coalitions, and what are the explanations for policy change? These questions are answered across eight empirical chapters, focusing on diverse policy topics and countries drawn from Africa's regional divisions. Original data were collected from various sources, including documents, interviews, news media, and questionnaires, and analyzed using techniques such as descriptive statistics, network analysis, process tracing, and the constant comparison method. The findings generally confirm the ACF's theoretical predictions about coalition formation and policy change, with some caveats. Advocacy coalitions were identified across policy subsystems in most countries, but comprised less well-known policy actors like chiefs or tribal leaders. They influenced policy change by exploiting external and internal shocks, using novel resources like convening power to mobilize other actors. Additionally, international actors were found to be influential in African policy processes. The key challenges of applying the ACF in Africa include incorporating the role of ethnic, cultural, and tribal identities in coalition formation, taking a broad perspective on political organizations, and improving theories of nascent subsystems. We conclude that addressing these and other challenges can bolster ACF and policy process research in Africa"--
  table of contents: Introduction : Policy processes in Africa and the Advocacy Coalition Framework / Alex Osei-Kojo and Christopher M. Weible -- New actors in old networks : Power and learning in Zambian food policy / Jody Harris and Allegra H. Fullerton -- Policy change and expected policy impacts : An ACF analysis of the roadmap to deforestation-free cocoa in Cameroon / Divine Foundjem-Tita and others -- Connective action and the boomerang pattern to end deforestation in the Democratic Republic of the Congo / Arttu Malkamäki and others -- The story of oil and gas policy change in Ghana / Alex Osei-Kojo -- The dynamics of policy change in Nigeria's oil and gas industry (2000-2021) / Martin Ike Nwalie -- The Advocacy Coalition Framework in a democratizing context : Unstable parameters in the Tunisian extractives sector subsystem / Alexander P. Martin -- Why did Africa's most acclaimed agricultural extension reform fail? Applying the Advocacy Coalition Framework to the case of Uganda's National Agricultural Advisory Services / Patience B. Rwamigisa and Regina Birner -- The entrepreneur in broker's clothing : Capitalizing on limited policy capacity to further climate-smart agriculture in Kenya / Marijn Faling -- Advancing policy studies in African countries / Alex Osei-Kojo and Christopher M. Weible.
  note: edited by Alex Osei-Kojo, Christopher M. Weible.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: f------
  subject:
    topic: Policy networks
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Policy sciences
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    topic: Pressure groups
    geographic: Africa
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
    topic: Politics and government
  subject:
    topic: Sciences de la politique
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    geographic: Afrique
    topic: Politique et gouvernement
  subject:
    topic: Réseaux de politiques publiques
    geographic: Afrique
  subject:
    topic: History & Theory
  subject:
    topic: POLITICAL SCIENCE
  subject:
    topic: Public Affairs & Administration
  subject:
    topic: Policy networks
  subject:
    topic: Policy sciences
  subject:
    topic: Pressure groups
  subject:
    geographic: Africa
  classification: H97.7 .A38 2026
  classification: 320.6096
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Advocacy coalitions and policy change in Africa
    origin info:
      publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2026]
    identifier: (OCoLC)1527664133
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in African politics and international relations
  identifier: 9780198940678 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 019894067X
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    physical location: POD
  record info:
    record content source: STBDS
    record creation date: 251204
    record change date: 20260315044940.2
    record identifier: in00005695529
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng