Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in Africa (Oxford Studies in African Politics and International Relations)

The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), a theoretical framework originally formulated to study US public policy, has been widely applied to western countries and has advanced policy process scholarship over the past three decades.However, there are far fewer systematic efforts to apply the Framework's theories in Africa compared to western contexts.This result lessens the contribution of African insights into policy process scholarship and hampers the production of generalizable knowledge.To address this empirical gap, Advocacy Coalitions and Policy Change in Africa poses and answers two interrelated research questions: what are the characteristics of advocacy coalitions, and, if appropriate, what are the explanations of policy change?These questions are explored across eight empirical, data-driven case studies in different policy domains across the continent's five regions: North Africa, West Africa, East Africa, Central Africa, and Southern Africa, and focus on diverse policy areas,