Dismantling, a form of policy change, involves the reduction or elimination of policies and programs through decisions that modify their design and implementation rather than simply terminating them. This chapter proposes an analytical framework that conceptualizes policy dismantling as a dynamic, multi-layered process and specifies four core dimensions for its study: the reasons that motivate dismantling, the strategies through which it is pursued, the changes in policy attributes (density and intensity), and the effects on target populations, implementing organizations, and policy subsystems. The framework integrates insights from policy process theories to link political preferences, external shocks, and institutional constraints to concrete design modifications and their consequences. By structuring dismantling in this way, the analytical framework facilitates systematic description and comparison of dismantling episodes across countries, sectors, and time, and provides a common language for analyzing how reductions in state intervention are decided, implemented, and their effects.