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Effective policy responses to combat AMR in LMIC will require a deeper knowledge of the policy process and its actors at all levels\u2014global, regional and national\u2014and their motivations for supporting or opposing policies to combat AMR. The influence of personal interests and connections between for-profit organisations\u2014such as pharmaceutical companies and food producers\u2014and policy actors in these settings is complex and very rarely addressed. In this paper, the authors describe the role of policy analysis focusing on social constructions, governance and power relations in soliciting a better understanding of support and opposition by key stakeholders for alternative AMR mitigation policies. Owing to the lack of conceptual frameworks on the policy process addressing AMR, we propose an approach to researching policy processes relating to AMR currently tested through our empirical programme of research in Cambodia, Pakistan, Indonesia and Tanzania. 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