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Recent scholarship in the social sciences has increasingly recognized the need toinvestigate the influence of emotions, or affect, on actors’ behavior. Responding to thisintellectual trend, this study undertakes a theoretical reconstruction of the belief systemwithin the Advocacy Coalition Framework (ACF), which has evolved to encompass not only therationality of policy actors but also the role of emotions. In doing so, it integrates the functionof emotions into the conceptualization of belief systems. Whereas the conventional ACF hasprimarily explained policy actors’ beliefs through the lens of rationality, this study argues thatthe interaction between reason and emotion exerts a significant influence on the formation,reinforcement, and transformation of beliefs. The analysis examines how emotions operateacross the three hierarchical levels of belief systems—normative core beliefs, policy corebeliefs, and secondary beliefs—and demonstrates that the patterns of interaction betweenemotion and reason vary according to the nature of the policy problem, distinguishingbetween wicked and ordinary problems. By doing so, the study extends the epistemologicalfoundations of the ACF’s understanding of belief systems and proposes a theoreticalframework that enables a more comprehensive account of policy actors’ behavior.

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