"Formulating a policy on waste management in the EC: a study of policy formulation based on Sabatier's advocacy coalition approach"

[From the Introduction]. The purpose of this paper is to study the formulation of a waste management policy in the EC using the advocacy coalition approach. Each of the three sets of factors noted above will be considered. The basic unit of study is the waste management policy subsystem in the EC. The actors in the subsystem include environmental interest groups, business interest groups, relevant national elites, the institutions of the EC and the bureaucrats in DG XI. The members of the subsystem organize into advocacy coalition groups that interact in the policy process according to rules of the system and in response to external changes