Table of Contents:
  • The common agricultural policy and institutional change
  • Institutional change : rational choice, historical and sociological perspectives
  • A discursive institutional approach and its analytical implications
  • The translation and institutionalisation of the world problematique (1968-1977)
  • The translation and institutionalisation of environmental ideas within the cap (1978-1985)
  • Conflicts over meaning and policy entrepreneurship within the cap (1986-1992)
  • The formation of a policy field : organic farming within the cap (1993-2005)
  • Conclusions.