European Policy Analysis
Figure 3 : Applications by Level of Government Over Time ( 1998 – 2015 ) policy process ( n = 7 ). in Sweden , given its membership in the European Union . However , none of the ACF applications included in this sample explore transnational processes . Thus , processes related to Europeanization have so far been a blind spot in Swedish ACF research . The role and impact of Europeanization has been a recurrent theme in other European ACF studies ( Hogl 2000 ; Irondelle 2003 ; Princen 2007 ) and should be seen as an avenue for research in future ACF applications in Sweden and beyond .
Theoretical Emphases
Of the 25 applications , 16 focused on identifying coalitions and understanding their associated beliefs and positions on the policy issue at hand . The same number of applications ( n = 16 ) focused on explaining policy change , often through coalition structure and occasionally through learning . Only seven applications addressed policyoriented learning and its impact on the
Advocacy Coalitions
The vast majority of applications in Sweden ( n = 19 ) identified coalitions . G Of these applications , twothirds described a subsystem with two coalitions and the remainder identified more than two coalitions within the subsystem . Out of the 19 applications that identified coalitions , only 13 specified who the coalition members were . The organizational affiliation of coalition members varied across nine categories determined inductively after coding all applications . On average , the coalition members represented five different organization types , with a minimum of four and a maximum of seven organization types identified within the same application . Figure 4 shows the number of applications in which a coalition member was identified , aggregated to the organizational level .
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