How Citizen Activists Can Make Shift Happen. A New Way of Mapping Policy Dynamics

Mapping policy change

Policy change typically unfolds according to two key determinants: 1. how contested ideas are framed, and, 2. the discursive competence of respective actors (see below for a brief discussion of this term).  In a stable policy context, there is enough overlap between competing frames for incremental policy change to occur.  Incremental policy change involves “non-innovative … Read more