Policy networks and policy change in organic agriculture: A comparative analysis of the UK and Ireland

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Greer, A
• 署名单位: University of West England
• 刊物名称: PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0033-3298
• DOI: 10.1111/1467-9299.00313
• 发表日期: 2002
• 页码: 453-473
• 关键词: political-science; food

摘要

This paper takes a comparative case-study approach, located within the literature on policy networks, to organic agriculture policy in the United Kingdom and Ireland since the late 1980s. An examination of policy development for the organic sector focuses primarily on regulatory arrangements. The core of the analysis applies some prominent themes in the policy network literature to the organic sector: the debate about sectoral and sub-sectoral networks, the relationship between networks, context and outcomes, and the role of the state and ideas in promoting policy change.