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The Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Policy Process Analysis: The Case of Smoking Control in Japan
Author(s) -
Sato Hajime
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.1999.tb01951.x
Subject(s) - process (computing) , political science , control (management) , policy analysis , public administration , policy advocacy , set (abstract data type) , competition (biology) , tobacco control , public economics , economics , computer science , management , ecology , biology , programming language , operating system , medicine , nursing , public health
This study examined the process of smoking control policymaking in Japan, employing the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) and the Policy Process Analysis (PPA). In the view of the ACF, changes in policies and policymaking are explained as resulting from the emergence of, and the competition among, two advocacy coalitions, either protobacco or antitobacco. On the other hand, the PPA conceives of the process of policy change as a set of processes and gives a closer look into the important aspects of policymaking that the ACF does not well examine.