Future Temporalities and Advocacy Coalition Framework: Latin American's Hybrid Approach

The Advocacy Coalition Framework assigns a structural role to time in explaining policy change, arguing that major transformations unfold over a decade or more. This article questions that premise in contexts of cultural heterogeneity and ontological plurality, where actors may hold divergent conceptions of the future. Drawing on critical and decolonial perspectives, it reorganizes the Future Temporalities Coalitions Framework from previous research. To propose a re‐specification of the Advocacy Coalition Framework's temporal architecture for Latin America, a qualitative comparative reinterpretation of three published studies on Access and Benefit‐Sharing policies in Colombia, Brazil, and Peru is conducted. Two studies apply the Advocacy Coalition Framework, and one employs a hybrid version incorporating future temporalities. The analysis shows that the Advocacy Coalition Framework explains coalition stability and policy change when actors share similar temporal assumptions. Tensions emerge when global regulatory regimes interact with local ontologies that conceptualize time differently. Reinterpreting deep core beliefs as carriers of temporal ontologies expands the framework's analytical capacity. By integrating temporal plurality as a dimension of conflict, the Future Temporalities Coalitions Framework enhances contextual sensitivity and extends the Advocacy Coalition Framework's applicability to transnational governance settings.