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Can Advocacy Coalitions Be Difference-Making in Canadian Policy Processes? Evidence from Canadian Firearms Policy

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advocacy coalitions, ACF, firearms policy, policy-making

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This paper investigates whether advocacy coalitions can have much policy influence in Canadian policy processes, where decision-making power tends to be highly centralized in the executive. The question is investigated through a diachronic case study of firearms policy-making that compares policy processes in 1976-77 and 1994-95 using a most-similar logic. Content analysis and social network analysis show that the 1976-77 process involved only a gun rights advocacy coalition, while the 1994-95 process involved both gun rights and gun control advocacy coalitions. Comparative analysis further shows that these advocacy coalitions had difference-making influence in these policy processes, contributing to the adoption of relatively minor gun control reforms in 1977 and major reforms in 1995.

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Tim Heinmiller, Brock University

Associate Professor & Chair, Department of Political Science, Brock University

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2023-12-08

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Heinmiller, T. (2023). Can Advocacy Coalitions Be Difference-Making in Canadian Policy Processes? Evidence from Canadian Firearms Policy. Canadian Political Science Review. Retrieved from https://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cpsr/article/view/1877

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