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Scott 2012 Advocacy
Scott 2012 Advocacy
Scott 2012 Advocacy
Introduction
Administration & Society
Ian Scott1
Keywords
Policy advocacy; advocacy coalitions; advocacy coalition framework
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City University of Hong Kong, China
Corresponding Author:
Ian Scott, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong,
Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China
Email: sascott@cityu.edu.hk
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the west. For the present, there remains the need for more empirical research
in the Asian context on the ways in which policy ideas reach the decision
makers’ agenda, how that agenda is affected by those ideas, the relationship
and effect of changing regime values on the policy process, and the ways in
which policy learning occurs.
Funding
The author(s) received no financial support for the research, authorship, and/or pub-
lication of this article.
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Bio
Ian Scott is emeritus professor of government and politics and a fellow of the Asia
Research Centre at Murdoch University and visiting professor in the Department of
Public and Social Administration at the City University of Hong Kong.
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