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100	1		_aTOMLINSON, Isobel Jane _944106
245	1	0	_aActing discursively : _bthe development of UK organic food and farming policy networks
260			_aMalden : _bWiley-Blackwell, _cDecember 2010
520	3		_aThis 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
773	0	8	_tPublic Administration: an international quarterly _g88, 4, p. 1045-1062 _dMalden : Wiley-Blackwell, December 2010 _xISSN 00333298 _w
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998			_a20110314 _b1520^b _cJaqueline
998			_a20110317 _b1644^b _cCarolina
999			_aConvertido do Formato PHL _bPHL2MARC21 1.1 _c38735 _d38735
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