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ACTING DISCURSIVELY: THE DEVELOPMENT OF UK ORGANIC FOOD AND FARMING POLICY NETWORKS

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This paper documents the early evolution of UK organic food and farming policy networks and locates this empirical focus in a theoretical context concerned with understanding the contemporary policy-making process. While policy networks have emerged as a widely acknowledged empirical manifestation of governance, debate continues as to the concept's explanatory utility and usefulness in situations of network and policy transformation since, historically, policy networks have been applied to ‘static’ circumstances. Recognizing this criticism, and in drawing on an interpretivist perspective, this paper sees policy networks as enacted by individual actors whose beliefs and actions construct the nature of the network. It seeks to make links between the characteristics of the policy network and the policy outcomes through the identification of discursively constructed ‘storylines’ that form a tool for consensus building in networks. This study analyses the functioning of the organic policy networks through the discursive actions of policy-network actors.

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Oxfordshire, United Kingdom : Wiley-Blackwell., 2010

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English

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00333298

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Volume 88, Issue 4, pages 1045–1062, December 2010

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United Kingdom
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