A Three‐Stage Model of the Maturation of Nascent Policy Subsystems Toward Stable Advocacy Coalitions, With Evidence From the UK 's Response to Covid ‐19

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ID7350447
AutoresKristijan Garic (0009-0008-5349-8566, Department of Government and Institute for Social and Economic Research University of Essex Colchester UK, autor correspondente), Philip Leifeld (0000-0002-6834-5705, Department of Social Statistics University of Manchester Manchester UK)
Ano2025
Data de publicação2025-06-09
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolicy Studies Journal (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/psj.70047
OpenAlexW4411152773
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas51

Policy subsystems are comprised of competing advocacy coalitions, in which public and private political actors with shared belief systems learn from each other and coordinate their strategies in the pursuit of influencing policy making in their favor. While numerous studies have focused on the longevity and structural stability of advocacy coalitions, there is scant theory and evidence on how nascent policy subsystems bifurcate into stable, competing coalitions. This article proposes a three‐stage model of problem discovery, differentiation, and consolidation. We apply discourse network analysis to the nascent subsystem of the UK's COVID‐19 response in order to study these phases and discuss their applicability and implications for other institutional and issue contexts

Biology · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19 · Political science · Stage (stratigraphy · Medicine · Nonprofit Sector and Volunteering · Policy Transfer and Learning · Public Policy and Administration Research · Internal Medicine