Strangers at the gate: the role of multidimensional ideas, policy anomalies and institutional gatekeepers in biofuel policy developments in the USA and European Union

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The Dynamics of Change

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List of Figures

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Conclusion

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Historical Origins and Development

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Ideas and Discourse

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Agents’ Discursive Interactions in Institutional Context

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Preface

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The Power of Ideas and Discourse

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Introduction to Discursive Institutionalism

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Philosophical Underpinnings in the Philosophy of Social Science

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Philosophical Underpinnings in the Philosophy of Science

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New Institutionalisms

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List of Tables

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Intellectual Trajectory

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The Construction of Meaning and Methods

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