Kristin L Olofsson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1487965 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kristin L Olofsson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kristin L |
| FAMILY NAME | Olofsson |
| SIGNATURE | OLOFSSON K L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oklahoma State University Oklahoma City |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6973-768X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Polarization Entrepreneurs: Dividing to Conquer in the Trump Era
The policy process literature has long theorized about the role of policy entrepreneurs, whom Paul Cairney calls the “hero... who knows that the pursuit of ambitious aims such as ‘evidence‐based policymaking’ requires framing a problem, having a solution ready, and exploiting the motive and opportunity of policymakers to select it” (2018, 199). The research agenda on policy entrepreneurs also holds great potential for another type of policy actor…
Does higher income play a protective role for racial minorities? An analysis of income, race, and cancer risk from air toxics across Oklahoma counties
Turf Protection or Policy Expansion? How European Agencies Shape Their Reputation Through Social Media Communication
We approach public communication of bureaucratic organizations as a means of reputation management and argue that social media communication that abstains from making reference to other agencies is in line with a turf‐protective strategy, whereas communication that seeks to establish a link to other agencies is in line with a strategy to embrace new issues and expand policy competencies. Using climate policy communication by EU agencies on the so…
Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework
The Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) media hypothesis posits that the media are policy actors, actively contributing to policy debates. However, recent critics have argued that the hypothesis is potentially “vapid” due to its failure to contextualize when, how, and why the media contribute to policy processes. This study considers the merit of this critique through an empirical case study of Ghana's energy crisis. Using a content analysis of ne…
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) remains one of the most established and applied approaches to studying policy processes. This chapter provides an overview of the ACF, including its assumptions and theories of advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning, and policy change. In doing so, it summarizes what is known about the policy processes under this approach based on the empirical applications that span the globe on various topics and us…
Watts at stake: Concern and willingness-to-pay for electrical grid improvements in the United States
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement
Policy processes are ongoing phenomena without beginning or end. Accordingly, a major focus of research has been on questions of stability and change. This paper continues in this tradition by examining advocacy coalition stability, belief change, and learning. This paper draws on three waves of policy actor surveys that compare panel and non‐panel samples. The data were collected in 2013, 2015, and 2017 in the context of oil and gas development …
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates
This article analyses the preferred advocacy strategies of industry representatives and environmentalists in the conflict over oil and gas drilling in the state of Colorado. Environmental policy, social movement and nonprofit literatures describe the advocacy strategies of those seeking to influence policy. While early work assumed that actors with greater resources rely on inside tactics and those with fewer resources rely on outside tactics, mo…
Narrators and Narratives: A Study of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
Policy narratives are deliberative tools used to influence public opinion and shape the policy agenda. This work examines policy narratives and the policy actors who tell them by exploring the stories surrounding air and climate issues in Delhi, India, using the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). As a proof-of-concept exercise that explores the potential validity and reliability of the ego-alter dyadic approach to dissecting narratives, we aim to …
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement
In high-conflict policy debates, individuals often make strategic decisions about the ways in which they engage in efforts to influence the direction of the debate. Some individuals act to expand the scope of the conflict, whereas others would prefer to contain the scope of the conflict and maintain status quo. This study empirically examines the relationship between activities of political engagement and goals of conflict expansion or containmen…
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy: From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal
Using Nonprofit Narratives and News Media Framing to Depict Air Pollution in Delhi, India
How is the air pollution issue in Delhi framed by the news media and narrated by nonprofit organizations? To study news media framing, we employed an inductive approach based on automated text coding of news coverage of the issue. To study nonprofit organization narrations, a deductive approach guided by the Narrative Policy Framework was used to focus on the stories told via online documents as found on nonprofit websites. The findings confirm e…
A Review of Applications of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in Swedish Policy Processes
In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among public policy scholars to explore the applicability of policy process frameworks across political systems. One popular framework simplifying the complexity of public policy is the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Prior research suggests that the ACF is useful for identifying variables and relationships influencing the policy process but also that questions remain regarding its applicab…
Enhancing Precision and Clarity in the Study of Policy Narratives: An Analysis of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
The study of policy narratives is challenged by inconsistencies and a need for more precise definitions and measurements. The goals of this article are to build precision and clarity in the study of policy narratives by developing a network-based approach-the ego-alter dyad-for coding characters and their interactions around a policy issue and then to illustrate this approach in the analysis of air and climate issues in Delhi, India. The empirica…
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement
Policy processes are ongoing phenomena without beginning or end. Accordingly, a major focus of research has been on questions of stability and change. This paper continues in this tradition by examining advocacy coalition stability, belief change, and learning. This paper draws on three waves of policy actor surveys that compare panel and non‐panel samples. The data were collected in 2013, 2015, and 2017 in the context of oil and gas development …
Enhancing Precision and Clarity in the Study of Policy Narratives: An Analysis of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
The study of policy narratives is challenged by inconsistencies and a need for more precise definitions and measurements. The goals of this article are to build precision and clarity in the study of policy narratives by developing a network-based approach-the ego-alter dyad-for coding characters and their interactions around a policy issue and then to illustrate this approach in the analysis of air and climate issues in Delhi, India. The empirica…
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement
In high-conflict policy debates, individuals often make strategic decisions about the ways in which they engage in efforts to influence the direction of the debate. Some individuals act to expand the scope of the conflict, whereas others would prefer to contain the scope of the conflict and maintain status quo. This study empirically examines the relationship between activities of political engagement and goals of conflict expansion or containmen…
Using Nonprofit Narratives and News Media Framing to Depict Air Pollution in Delhi, India
How is the air pollution issue in Delhi framed by the news media and narrated by nonprofit organizations? To study news media framing, we employed an inductive approach based on automated text coding of news coverage of the issue. To study nonprofit organization narrations, a deductive approach guided by the Narrative Policy Framework was used to focus on the stories told via online documents as found on nonprofit websites. The findings confirm e…
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates
This article analyses the preferred advocacy strategies of industry representatives and environmentalists in the conflict over oil and gas drilling in the state of Colorado. Environmental policy, social movement and nonprofit literatures describe the advocacy strategies of those seeking to influence policy. While early work assumed that actors with greater resources rely on inside tactics and those with fewer resources rely on outside tactics, mo…
Narrators and Narratives: A Study of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
Policy narratives are deliberative tools used to influence public opinion and shape the policy agenda. This work examines policy narratives and the policy actors who tell them by exploring the stories surrounding air and climate issues in Delhi, India, using the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). As a proof-of-concept exercise that explores the potential validity and reliability of the ego-alter dyadic approach to dissecting narratives, we aim to …
Watts at stake: Concern and willingness-to-pay for electrical grid improvements in the United States
A Review of Applications of the Advocacy Coalition Framework in Swedish Policy Processes
In recent decades, there has been a growing interest among public policy scholars to explore the applicability of policy process frameworks across political systems. One popular framework simplifying the complexity of public policy is the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF). Prior research suggests that the ACF is useful for identifying variables and relationships influencing the policy process but also that questions remain regarding its applicab…
Enhancing Precision and Clarity in the Study of Policy Narratives: An Analysis of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
The study of policy narratives is challenged by inconsistencies and a need for more precise definitions and measurements. The goals of this article are to build precision and clarity in the study of policy narratives by developing a network-based approach-the ego-alter dyad-for coding characters and their interactions around a policy issue and then to illustrate this approach in the analysis of air and climate issues in Delhi, India. The empirica…
Using Nonprofit Narratives and News Media Framing to Depict Air Pollution in Delhi, India
How is the air pollution issue in Delhi framed by the news media and narrated by nonprofit organizations? To study news media framing, we employed an inductive approach based on automated text coding of news coverage of the issue. To study nonprofit organization narrations, a deductive approach guided by the Narrative Policy Framework was used to focus on the stories told via online documents as found on nonprofit websites. The findings confirm e…
Sustainable Cities in American Democracy: From Postwar Urbanism to a Civic Green New Deal
Narrators and Narratives: A Study of Climate and Air Issues in Delhi, India
Policy narratives are deliberative tools used to influence public opinion and shape the policy agenda. This work examines policy narratives and the policy actors who tell them by exploring the stories surrounding air and climate issues in Delhi, India, using the Narrative Policy Framework (NPF). As a proof-of-concept exercise that explores the potential validity and reliability of the ego-alter dyadic approach to dissecting narratives, we aim to …
Winners and losers: Conflict management through strategic policy engagement
In high-conflict policy debates, individuals often make strategic decisions about the ways in which they engage in efforts to influence the direction of the debate. Some individuals act to expand the scope of the conflict, whereas others would prefer to contain the scope of the conflict and maintain status quo. This study empirically examines the relationship between activities of political engagement and goals of conflict expansion or containmen…
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
The Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) remains one of the most established and applied approaches to studying policy processes. This chapter provides an overview of the ACF, including its assumptions and theories of advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning, and policy change. In doing so, it summarizes what is known about the policy processes under this approach based on the empirical applications that span the globe on various topics and us…
Watts at stake: Concern and willingness-to-pay for electrical grid improvements in the United States
Advocacy coalitions, beliefs, and learning: An analysis of stability, change, and reinforcement
Policy processes are ongoing phenomena without beginning or end. Accordingly, a major focus of research has been on questions of stability and change. This paper continues in this tradition by examining advocacy coalition stability, belief change, and learning. This paper draws on three waves of policy actor surveys that compare panel and non‐panel samples. The data were collected in 2013, 2015, and 2017 in the context of oil and gas development …
Advocacy strategies of industry and environmental interest groups in oil and gas policy debates
This article analyses the preferred advocacy strategies of industry representatives and environmentalists in the conflict over oil and gas drilling in the state of Colorado. Environmental policy, social movement and nonprofit literatures describe the advocacy strategies of those seeking to influence policy. While early work assumed that actors with greater resources rely on inside tactics and those with fewer resources rely on outside tactics, mo…
Vapid or Vague? Reassessing Media Within the Narrative Policy Framework
The Narrative Policy Framework's (NPF) media hypothesis posits that the media are policy actors, actively contributing to policy debates. However, recent critics have argued that the hypothesis is potentially “vapid” due to its failure to contextualize when, how, and why the media contribute to policy processes. This study considers the merit of this critique through an empirical case study of Ghana's energy crisis. Using a content analysis of ne…
Assessing multi-dimensional complexity through sustainability modeling: A whole community approach
Polarization Entrepreneurs: Dividing to Conquer in the Trump Era
The policy process literature has long theorized about the role of policy entrepreneurs, whom Paul Cairney calls the “hero... who knows that the pursuit of ambitious aims such as ‘evidence‐based policymaking’ requires framing a problem, having a solution ready, and exploiting the motive and opportunity of policymakers to select it” (2018, 199). The research agenda on policy entrepreneurs also holds great potential for another type of policy actor…
Does higher income play a protective role for racial minorities? An analysis of income, race, and cancer risk from air toxics across Oklahoma counties
Turf Protection or Policy Expansion? How European Agencies Shape Their Reputation Through Social Media Communication
We approach public communication of bureaucratic organizations as a means of reputation management and argue that social media communication that abstains from making reference to other agencies is in line with a turf‐protective strategy, whereas communication that seeks to establish a link to other agencies is in line with a strategy to embrace new issues and expand policy competencies. Using climate policy communication by EU agencies on the so…
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