ABSTRACT
In this chapter, we take up the issue, formulated at the end of Chapter 3: understanding the agency involved in:
Overcoming resistance and inertia, drawing upon examples of agency • in Dutch agricultural modernization in the years 1945-1970, when it went through an acceleration; The struggle of counter-modernization concerns to overcome the • institutional inertia from the modernization regime (1974-1996); The struggle of contemporary innovative experiments, undertaken in • a setting in which elements of the (even though deteriorating) incumbent regime are still infl uential.
