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Advocacy coalitions, policy-oriented learning and long-term change in genetic engineering policy: an interpretist view.
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German Policy Studies
- Article date:
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December 22, 2006
- Author:
- Bandelow, Nils C.
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1. Introduction (1)
In 1973, Stanley Cohen and Herbert Boyer introduced a technique to transfer genes from one organism to another artificially. Scientists, industry, farmers, medicine, and several social movements have associated different kinds of hopes and risks with the use of gene technology. Eventually, it became a permanent controversial political issue (cf. Hindmarsh/Gottweis 2005: 299). The controversy led to a regulatory framework that differs between OECD countries although there was an international scientific debate to connect the national discourses (cf. Gottweis 1998). Even though the European Union gained a lot of legal competencies, national actors and the ...