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Policy learning in policy domains with value conflicts: the Austrian cases of abortion and Assisted Reproductive Technologies (1).

1 Introduction

This paper addresses the question of how we can account for learning in policy domains, in which according to Sabatier's Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF, Sabatier 1988, 1998, Sabatier & Jenkins-Smith 1993, 1999) learning is unlikely.

For a better understanding of the policy process the ACF starts from the assumption that "policy subsystems" or policy domains are structured by several - usually two - competing advocacy coalitions (AC). An AC is "composed of actors from various governmental and private organisations which both (a) share a set of normative and causal beliefs and (b) engage in a non-trivial degree of coordinated activity over time" ...

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