How to Reform a Reform Coalition
Outreach, Agenda Expansion, and Brokerage in Urban School Reform
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6330347 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christopher Ansell (0000-0002-7723-1283, University of California, Berkeley), Chris Ansell, Sarah Reckhow (0000-0002-0988-942X, Michigan State University), Andrew Kelly (0000-0002-2896-5993), Andrew P Kelly (0000-0003-2719-6544, University of California, Berkeley) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 717-743 |
| Publication date | 2009-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00332.x |
| OpenAlex | W2152885611 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 46 |
| References cited | 36 |
Coalitions have always played an advocacy role in policymaking, but they are increasingly regarded as a form of community capacity that can be harnessed to civic ends. As explored in this study of urban school reform in Oakland, California, this civic view of coalitions confronts a tension between the cohesiveness and the inclusiveness of coalitions. Coalitions unified around cohesive goals and beliefs are often narrowly based, which can encourage the formation of rival coalitions. By contrast, reform coalitions that build broad‐based support across the community may have difficulty developing coherent reform strategies. Using a social network analysis of key stakeholders to analyze the challenges of building civic capacity in Oakland, we find that the school district's recent reform experience more closely resembles an advocacy coalition than a broad civic coalition. The article then explores strategies for developing a broad civic coalition by expanding the existing advocacy coalition. We use the network analysis to identify opportunities for brokerage across individuals, institutions, and issues
Civic engagement · Group cohesiveness · Outreach · Political science · Politics · Public relations · Educational Assessment and Improvement · Law · Public Administration · Public Policy and Administration Research · School Choice and Performance
Who got their way? Advocacy coalitions and the Irish climate change law
Strengthening political leadership and policy innovation through the expansion of collaborative forms of governance
Urban education reform in wicked times
Mapping the community school policy network using Twitter data and social network analysis
Pedagogical priorities as a professional resource for advocacy coalition building? A Swiss Delphi study on future schooling
School District Discourse Coalitions and Equity-Focused Policy Innovations in Oakland, California 2020–2021
The medium is the message… Also, in the academy? Exploring the influence of environment policy think tanks
De-politicising and re-politicising transport infrastructure futures
Coalition portfolios and interest group influence over the policy process
Financing the education policy discourse
Exploring the role of citizen participation in the policy acceptance process
What Drives Coalitions' Narrative Strategy? Exploring Policy Narratives around School Choice
A Renaissance in State Interest Group Studies
Network governance and regional equity
Mapping pathways for urban reforms
Breaking the Treadmill? Climate Change Policy Networks and the Prospects for Low Carbon Futures in Australia and Finland
What enables communities to resist neoliberal education reforms? Lessons from Newark and Camden, New Jersey
Progressive and Sustained School Reforms
Too many options
Common approaches for studying advocacy
Uncovering influence through Social Network Analysis
New Governance and New Knowledge Brokers
How Community Engagement Helped Transform the Union City Public Schools
Beyond the School Walls
The State of Network Research in Public Administration
A Network Perspective on the Processes of Empowered Organizations
Community Schools as Urban District Reform
Lobbying Conflict, Competition, and Working in Coalitions
An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria
Constraints, Values, and Information
The Advocacy Coalition Index
Community Cultural Wealth in Stakeholder Perceptions of the Return to Local Control of Schools
Interest Group Coalitions in the States
The Effects of Centralized Government Authority on Black and Latino Political Empowerment
Policy Change
Theories of the Policy Process
Cooptation of Engos or Treadmill of Production? Advocacy Coalitions and Climate Change Policy in Finland
Nonprofits as Advocates and Providers
Network Structures within Policy Processes
There and Back Again
Winners and Losers in the Ecology of Games
The Intellectual Structure of Empirical Network Research in Public Administration
The Role of Bridging Cultural Practices in Racially and Socioeconomically Diverse Civic Organizations
Coalitions and Conservation
Clarifying and reframing the neoliberal critique of educational policy using policy process theories
Solving for X
Spinning wheels
The theory of political coalitions.
Regime politics
Community Organizing
How Can Comprehensive School Reform Models Be Successfully Implemented?
The Advocacy Coalition Framework
Brokering Health Policy
Policy change and learning
The Web of Group- Affiliations
Building a Clean Machine
American Babylon
Brokerage and Closure
The Duality of Persons and Groups
Centrality in valued graphs
On the robustness of centrality measures under conditions of imperfect data
Why It Is So Difficult to Form Effective Community Coalitions
The Nature of Civic Involvement and Educational Change in Pittsburgh, Boston, and St. Louis
An advocacy coalition framework of policy change and the role of policy-oriented learning therein
Pulling Together
Structures of Mediation
Theories of the Policy Process
The Calculus of Coalitions
Civic Capacity and Urban Education
Keeping Policy Churn Off the Agenda
Advocacy Coalitions, Policy Entrepreneurs, and Policy Change
Comparing Policy Networks
Seeking Effective Power
The Flight of the Bumblebee
Shared Beliefs and Imposed Interdependencies as Determinants of Ally Networks in Overlapping Subsystems
Robust Action and the Rise of the Medici, 1400-1434
| Unique citing works | 46 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3,07 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 45 |