The study of narratives in a variety of disciplines has grown in recent years as a method of better explaining underlying concepts in their respective fields. Through the use of Narrative Policy Framework (NPF), political scientists can analyze the role narrative plays in political discourse.

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Stephanie M. Adams received her MPA from Montana State University in 2012. She earned her Bachelor of Science from St. Lawrence University in Sociology and Psychology. She has extensive administrative and conservation experience in working with contentious policy issues in the American West. John Berggren is a PhD Candidate in Environmental Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder, and a research affiliate with Western Water Assessment and the Center for Science and Technology Policy Research. Savannah Collins is currently working as a Data Analyst for the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts. She received her MPA from The Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University in 2014, with foci in policy analysis and quantitative methods. She received her BA in Political Science from the University of Oklahoma in 2012. Her research explores public policy strategies and outcomes, as well as making data-driven decisions for organizational best practices. Deserai Anderson Crow is an Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado Boulder in the Environmental Studies Program, Associate Director of the Center for Environmental Journalism, and is on the faculty of the Center for Science & Technology Policy Research. She earned her Ph.D. in 2008 from Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment and Earth Sciences. She holds a B.A. in journalism from the University of Colorado Boulder and a Masters of Public Administration from the Universityof Colorado Denver. Claire A. Dunlop (F) is Senior Lecturer in Politics at the University of Exeter. A public policy and administration scholar, Claire's main fields of interest include the politics of expertise and knowledge utilization; epistemic communities and advisory politics; risk governance; policy learning and analysis; impact assessment; and policy narratives. She explores these conceptual interests at the UK and EU levels principally, and most frequently in relation to agricultural, food and environmental issues. Kuhika Gupta is a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Energy, Security, and Society at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to completing her PhD at the University of Oklahoma, she also received an MA from the University of Warwick (UK) and a BA from Delhi University (India). She studies public policy, with a special interest in comparative public policy, risk and public policy, and energy policy. Her research has appeared in journals such as Policy Studies Journal and Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis. Tanya Heikkila is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Affairs at the University of Colorado Denver and holds and MPA and PhD from the University of Arizona. Her expertise is in the field of environmental policy and governance, with an emphasis on understanding conflict and cooperation around common-pool resources. Maria A. Husmann is a graduate of the MPA program at Idaho State University and currently works as a management analyst for the City of Tacoma, Washington, in the United States. Andrew R. Kear is an assistant professor at Bowling Green State University, Ohio where he serves as a dual appointee in the Department of Political Science and Department of Environment and Sustainability. He teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in environmental politics, energy and sustainability, public policy, and public administration. He earned a Ph.D. in Political Science from Colorado State University and also holds an MS from Ohio University and a BA from the College of Wooster, both in Geology. His research focuses on energy policy and interest group politics and he has published on western energy issues (California Journal of Politics and Policy) and also on the role of interest groups in elections (Roads to Congress 2008 edited volume). Donna L. Lybecker is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at Idaho State University where she specializes in Environmental Politics and International Relations. Her research activities focus on the Western United States, the North American borders, and Latin America. Recent publications include articles in Environmental Politics, International Journal of Sustainable Society and Politics and Policy. Steven Ney completed his doctorate in the policy sciences at the Department of Comparative Politics in the University of Bergen. Trained as a policy analyst at the University of London, Steven Ney has worked on a widerange of policy issues in a number of research institutes including the LOS Center in Bergen, the Interdisciplinary Centre for Comparative Research in the Social Sciences (ICCR) in Vienna and the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg. After spending four years from 2005 as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Singapore Management University, Steven Ney became Assistant Professor for Policy Science and Social Entrepreneurship at Jacobs University, Bremen in August ...

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Contents Preface: The Portneuf School of Narrative; Mark K. McBeth Acknowledgements The Scientific Study of Policy Narratives in the Policy Process 1. Introducing the Narrative Policy Framework; Michael D. Jones, Mark K. McBeth and Elizabeth A. Shanahan 2. Research Design and the Narrative Policy Framework; Jonathan J. Pierce, Aaron Smith-Walter and Holly L. Peterson Micro-Level NPF: Individuals and Policy Narratives 3. The Narrative Policy Framework and the Practitioner: Communicating Recycling Policy; Mark K. McBeth, Donna L. Lybecker and Maria Husmann 4. The Blame Game: Narrative Persuasiveness of the Intentional Causal Mechanism; Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Stephanie M. Adams, Michael D. Jones and Mark K. McBeth Meso-Level NPF: Groups, Coalitions and Policy Narratives 5. The Strategic Use of Policy Narratives: Jaitapur and the Politics of Siting a Nuclear Power Plant in India; Kuhika Gupta, Joseph T. Ripberger and Savannah Collins 6. Narrating the 'Arab Spring': Where Expertise Meets Heuristics in Legislative Hearings; Tom O'Bryan, Claire A. Dunlop and Claudio M. Radaelli 7. Using the Narrative Policy Framework to Understand Stakeholder Strategy and Effectiveness: A Multi-Case Analysis; Deserai Anderson Crow and John Berggren 8. Coalitions are People: Policy Narratives and the Defeat of Ohio Senate Bill 5; Andrew R. Kear and Dominic D. Wells 9. Exploring the Policy Narratives and Politics of Hydraulic Fracturing in New York; Tanya Heikkila, Chris Weible and Jonathan Pierce 10. The Governance of Social Innovation: Connecting Meso and Macro Levels of Analysis; Steven Ney Assessing the NPF 11. Narrative Policy Framework: Contributions, Limitations, and Recommendations; Christopher M. Weible and Edella Schlager 12. Denouement?; Elizabeth A. Shanahan, Mark K. McBeth and Michael D. Jones