1st Edition
The Common Agricultural Policy Policy Dynamics in a Changing Context
The Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is a unique agricultural policy worldwide. For many years, its status as the only common European Community (EC) policy governed by EC institutions put it at the heart of European integration. Today the CAP is not the only common European Union (EU) policy. Even while it remains the sole instance of a regionally integrated agricultural policy, the CAP no longer embodies the same degree of cross-national harmonization of agricultural policy among EC/EU member states that it once did.
The CAP has undergone policy reforms in the past two decades and these reforms have spawned a host of questions. What has caused the CAP to reform? How path-breaking are CAP reforms? Are they consistent with founding CAP goals or do they encompass new ideas about agriculture’s place in the economy and society? And what are the consequences of agricultural policy reforms: for European farmers, consumers and taxpayers; for European ‘public goods’ such as environmental sustainability and preservation of rural communities and landscapes; and for third parties outside the EU, including the WTO?
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Integration.
1- Introduction: The Common Agricultural Policy: Continuity and Change
GRACE SKOGSTAD (Department of Political Science, University of Toronto) and AMY VERDUN (Department of Political Science, University of Victoria)
2- The CAP: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
ALISON BURRELL (Wageningen University, The Netherlands)
3- The Logic of Policy Development: Lessons Learned from Reform and Routine within the CAP 1980 – 2003
KENNET LYNGGAARD (Department of Society and Globalisation, Roskilde University) and PETER NEDERGAARD (Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen)
4- Ideational Change in the WTO and Its Impacts on EU Agricultural Policy Institutions and the CAP
CARSTEN DAUGBJERG (Department of Political Science, University of Aarhus) and ALAN SWINBANK (School of Agriculture, Policy and Development, University of Reading)
5- Enlargement of the European Union and Agricultural Policy Reform
MARIA SKOVAGER JENSEN, KIM MARTIN LIND and HENRIK ZOBBE (University of Copenhagen)
6- Domestic Change and EU Compliance: Policy Feedback during Enforcement
GERARD BREEMAN and PIETER ZWAAN (Department of Public Administration and Policy, Wageningen University and Research Center, Wageningen, The Netherlands)
7- Environmentally sustainable agriculture and future developments of the CAP
HELLE OERSTED NIELSEN, ANDERS BRANTH PEDERSEN (Department of Policy Analysis, National Environmental Research Institute, University of Aarhus) and TOVE CHRISTENSEN (Institute of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, University of Aarhus)
8- Competitive Governance and the Quest for Legitimacy in the EU: The Battle over the Regulation of GMOs since the mid-1990s
YVES TIBERGHIEN (Department of Political Science, University of British Columbia)
9- The GMO Panel: Applications of WTO Law to Trade in Agricultural Biotech Products
GILBERT R. WINHAM (Professor Emeritus, Department of Political Science and Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Law, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
Biography
Grace Skogstad is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of British Columbia. She is the author of Internationalization and Canadian Agriculture: Policy and Governing Paradigms (2008). She has edited or co-edited four books and published over sixty articles and book chapters.
Amy Verdun is Professor of Political Science, Jean Monnet Chair, the Director of the Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence at the University of Victoria, in Victoria BC, Canada where she has been since 1997. She is author or editor of twelve books and has published and published about a hundred articles and book chapters the latest of which is, co-edited with Pompeo della Posta, Globalization, Development and Integration (2009) (Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan).
