Imperial College London.
Public Adm. 2010;88(4):1045-62. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01860.x.
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.
本文记录了英国有机食品和农业政策网络的早期演变，并将这一实证焦点置于关注理解当代政策制定过程的理论背景中。虽然政策网络已经作为治理的广泛公认的经验表现形式出现，但关于该概念在网络和政策转型情况下的解释力和有用性的争论仍在继续，因为从历史上看，政策网络一直适用于“静态”情况。认识到这一批评，并借鉴解释主义观点，本文将政策网络视为由个体行为者制定的，他们的信念和行动构建了网络的性质。它试图通过识别形成网络中共识构建工具的话语构建的“故事情节”，在政策网络的特征和政策结果之间建立联系。本研究通过政策网络行为者的话语行为来分析有机政策网络的运作。
