Advocacy coalition formation and key actors within the policy

Coalition Formation between Self-Interested Heterogeneous Actors

Faculty of Humanities Graduate School of Natural Sciences

Dynamic Coalition Formation and Equilibrium Policy Selection*

A model of policy formulation is proposed in which the government and the private sector form dynamic coalitions for the purpose of choosing policy actions. However, current players cannot commit their future selves to any particular actions. Defining an equilibrium to be an unblocked sequence of actions, we show that an equilibrium exists and is unique even though, in general, cooperative outc...

Understanding policy change with the advocacy coalition framework: an application to Swiss drug policy

Over the last two decades, Swiss drug policy has moved away from a prohibitionist to a ‘harm reduction’ model. This article uses the advocacy coalition framework (ACF) to understand this process of policy change, drawing on social movement theory to overcome shortcomings of the ACF regarding collective action. We argue that recent history in the Želd of drug policy in Switzerland can plausibly ...

Coalition Formation and the Ancillary Benefits of Climate Policy

Several studies found ancillary benefits of environmental policy to be of considerable size. These additional private benefits imply not only higher cooperative but also noncooperative abatement targets. However, beyond these largely undisputed important quantitative effects, there are qualitative and strategic implications associated with ancillary benefits: climate policy is no longer a pure ...

Advocacy and Competition Policy