Is the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF) embedded within a positivist or non-positivist epistemology?

Leonard Creutzburg @Leonard-Creutzburg-2

17 September 2019 1 241 Report

While some scholars argue that the ACF is based on (neo) positivism, others note that it is actually post positivist.

Karl Pfeifer

It seems more like a pragmatist epistemology -- assign epistemic warrant to what's practical and practicable.

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