The common agricultural policy and organic farming /

• Main Author: Lynggaard, Kennet, (Author)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2006.
• Subjects: Organic farming > Government policy > European Union countries.; Agriculture and state > European Union countries.; Agricultural Economics.; Policy and Planning.; Plant Cropping Systems.; Animal Husbandry and Production, (New March 2000); Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Rural Sociology, (New March 2000); Agricultural policy.; CAP.; Change.; Institutions.; Organic farming.; Political attitudes.; Politics.; Electronic books.
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This book deals with institutional change within the EU's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and, in particular, it deals with the type of institutional change that is ideational in nature. A discursive institutional perspective on change is elaborated and applied with specific focus on the insti...

Table of Contents:

• The common agricultural policy and institutional change
• Institutional change : rational choice, historical and sociological perspectives
• A discursive institutional approach and its analytical implications
• The translation and institutionalisation of the world problematique (1968-1977)
• The translation and institutionalisation of environmental ideas within the cap (1978-1985)
• Conflicts over meaning and policy entrepreneurship within the cap (1986-1992)
• The formation of a policy field : organic farming within the cap (1993-2005)
• Conclusions.