Alex Osei-Kojo Editor

Alex Osei-Kojo is an Assistant Professor of Public Policy in the Department of Political Science and Affiliate at the Center for Energy, Transportation, and Environmental Policy (CETEP) in the Baker School of Public Policy and Public Affairs at the University of Tennessee Knoxville. Osei-Kojo studies energy and environmental policy in Africa, using the Advocacy Coalition Framework and other policy process theories. He has published articles in several respected outlets including Review of Policy Research, Resources Policy, Public Administration Review, Policy & Politics, and German Political Science Quarterly. Formerly, he taught public policy and public administration at the University of Ghana. He also worked as a research fellow at the Institute for Democratic Governance, a think tank focused on advancing democratic governance in Africa. Christopher M. Weible is University of Colorado Distinguished Professor at the University of Colorado Denver and Guest Professor at the Luleå University of Technology. Weible studies politics and policy in contentious environmental issues and dozens of article publications using the Advocacy Coalition Framework. In 2016, he co-edited a seven-country comparison of oil and gas development based on the Advocacy Coalition Framework entitled Policy Debates on Hydraulic Fracturing: Comparing Coalition Politics in North America and Europe. He co-edited, with Samuel Workman, the new Methods of the Policy Process and edited the fifth edition of Theories of the Policy Process. He also currently serves as the co-editor for Policy & Politics and co-director of the Center for Policy and Democracy and holds an Honorary Doctor of Philosophy from Luleå University of Technology in Sweden.