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Coalitions and Values in the Flow of Policy Solutions

Why do some solutions become serious policy contenders while others fade away? Utilizing the Multiple Streams Approach, I explore the politics of discursive coalition formation around individual solutions. Each solution contains a coalition of actors bound by a relative convergence of preferences, values, and frames. I argue four factors make some solution/coalition packages more likely contenders for serious consideration and final adoption: side payments, institutional rule manipulation, short-time horizons, and advocacy/framing. Political coalitions are forged around each solution by policy entrepreneurs, making the process partly the result of political conflict and power and partly the consequence of discursive meaning contestation.