标题：An introduction to the ‘new’ politics of agriculture and food We are grateful to the other contributors for their helpful comments on earlier drafts of this text, and to the journal’s referees, but retain sole responsibility for its contents. View all notes
摘要：The agricultural policy agenda has been broadened with farm policy issues now interlinking with other policy domains (food safety, energy supplies, environmental protection, development aid, etc.). New actors promoting values which sometimes conflict, or which are not always easily reconcilable, with those previously guiding agricultural policy have entered the broader agricultural and food policy domain. The studies of various new policy issues inter-linking with the agricultural policy domain included in this special issue show that value conflicts are addressed in different ways and thus result in inter-institutional coordination and conflict unfolding differently. Studies of inter-institutional policy making in the agricultural policy sector have the potential to contribute to theoretical developments in public policy analysis in much the same way as agricultural policy studies did in the past.
关键词：Compartmentalised policy making; Decompartmentalism; Value conflict; Inter-institutional linkages; Policy layering
