Which First? Relations between Policy Learning and Policy Change in the French Politics of Hydraulic Fracturing
(2019) General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) — Location: Wroclaw, Poland (4.September.2019)
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- Based on an analysis of interviews, newspaper articles and official reports, we rely on insights from the advocacy coalition framework and from policy framing research to conduct a congruence analysis of the French politics of hydraulic fracturing (2010-2017). Despite the lobbying of a resourceful coalition of pro-fracturing policy actors and their strategy of active participation in various professional forums, hydraulic fracturing was partially banned in 2011 and completely prohibited in 2017. Our results relate this ban to the stronger repetition of a simpler policy frame by the members of the anti-fracturing coalition. In other words, coalition members willing to transform their policy position into concrete decisions should make their frame loud and simple. These findings do not disqualify the advocacy coalition framework to account for policy processes; rather, we suggest that policy framing could be conceptualized as a coalition strategy to influence policy processes. We conclude with theoretical, empirical, and practical implications.
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Moyson, S., Fievet, B., Plancq, M., Chailleux, S., & Aubin, D. (2019). Which First? Relations between Policy Learning and Policy Change in the French Politics of Hydraulic Fracturing. General Conference of the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), Wroclaw, Poland. https://hdl.handle.net/2078.5/123346