Policy stretching and institutional layering: British food policy between security, safety, quality, health and climate change

British Politics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 386-414

  Feindt, Peter H ^a   Flynn, Andrew ^a  

^a CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Food policy; Institutional change; Multi level governance; Policy change; Policy layering; Policy paradigm

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350015551     PISSN: 1746918X     EISSN: 17469198     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1057/bp.2009.13     Document Type: Article

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