Epistemic communities, colletive entrepreneurship and European integration
By: ZITO,Anthony R
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ArticlePublisher: August 2001Subject(s): Entrepreneurship | Environment | Epistemic Communities | European Union | IdeasJournal of European Public Policy 8, 4, p. 585-603Abstract: This article investigates the conditions unde which epistemic communities define the preferences of European Union (EU) policy-makers. The paper examines how one epistemic community, using the critical loads approach, has influenced EU acid rain policy. The article contends that actors seeking to change EU policy must pursue collective entrepreneurship. Epistemic communities can provide such entrepreneurship, but they only operate in very defined circumstances
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This article investigates the conditions unde which epistemic communities define the preferences of European Union (EU) policy-makers. The paper examines how one epistemic community, using the critical loads approach, has influenced EU acid rain policy. The article contends that actors seeking to change EU policy must pursue collective entrepreneurship. Epistemic communities can provide such entrepreneurship, but they only operate in very defined circumstances
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