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An advocacy coalition framework analysis of local government autonomy in Nigeria

In addition to changing beliefs and resources within policy subsystems, the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) identifies two sets of external variables that may affect policy change: (1) generally stable parameters like constitutional and social structures and (2) external events like public opinion and economic conditions. This paper studies how policy actors influence policy change within a policy subsystem where external parameters not only provide a stable environment for coalitions but also impose and maintain policy stasis. Using the local government autonomy (LGA) policy subsystem in N…