What Changes Policies? Ideas against Interests. Change in the Model of Management of Spanish Airports

Authors

  • Xavier Ballart
  • Casilda Güell

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.18042/cepc/rep.171.06

Keywords:

Airports, management, advocacy coalition framework, policy change, Spain.

Abstract

This article analyses the policy of the Spanish government in relation to a potential
change in the model of airport management, through the Advocacy Coalition
Framework (ACF). This theoretical framework and other theories explain the shift of
policies based on ideas, beliefs and learning processes. This study confirms some of
the hypotheses of the ACF but at the same time points to the weakness of the framework, because it does not include the analysis of the interaction between beliefs at the micro-policy system level and political interests at the macro level. Along the same line of argumentation, the ACF does not pay enough attention to the institutional features that condition the authority of the executive to adopt new policies.

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