...politics," not self-interest, and that actors' core beliefs are resistant to change. Consequently, "on major controversies within a policy subsystem when...tends to be rather stable over periods of a decade or more."71 Issue networks, on the other hand, were said to be fluid and dynamic, with persistent cleavages...

...discussed. 4.7.2.1 Advocacy Coalitions One of the basic hypotheses of the ACF is: Hypothesis 1: On major controversies within a policy subsystem when...to be rather stable over periods of a decade or so. This hypothesis contains the main elements of the framework: the focus on the policy subsystem (here...

...for example, Sabatier (1993, 27) surmises: "On major controversies within a policy subsystem where core beliefs are in dispute, the lineup of allies...be rather stable over periods of a decade or so." 2. For the one-way ANOVA test of the differences in the means, F = 2.10, df = 1.24, p < 0.16. Perhaps...

...These assumptions lead to one of the critical hypotheses of the entire framework: Hypothesis 1: On major controversies within a policy subsystem when...tends to be rather stable over periods of a decade or so.6 Thus the framework explicitly rejects the view that actors are primarily motivated by their short-term...

...These assumptions lead to one of the critical hypotheses of the entire framework: Hypothesis 1: On major controversies within a policy subsystem when...tends to be rather stable over periods of a decade or so.6 178 Thus the framework explicitly rejects the view that actors are primarily motivated by their...