The Advocacy Coalition Framework and the Policy Process Analysis: The Case of Smoking Control in Japan |
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| Authors: | Hajime Sato |
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| Affiliation: | Hajime Sato is a lecturer in the Department of Public Health and Occupational Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine at the University of Tokyo. He received his M.D. (1986) and Ph.D. (1996) from the University of Tokyo, and M.P.H. (1991) and D.P.H. (1997) from Harvard University. His research interests focus on health policy and politics from an international comparative perspective. |
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| Abstract: | 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. |
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