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Replication Data for: Information processing in the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy
No full textThe policy studies literature is divided on how information processing takes place in policy processes. Punctuated equilibrium theory claims that policy-makers tend to process information disproportionately, giving more weight to some incoming signals than to others. By contrast, thermostatic models of policy-making argue that policy-makers respond in a more proportionate way. In this paper, we analyse information processing in the adoption of Total Allowable Catches (TACs) under the European Union’s (EU) Common Fisheries Policy. Based on a novel measure for the proportionality of information processing, it shows that over time TACs have become more closely aligned with incoming signals about fish stocks. This development can be explained through a combination of changing discourses around fisheries conservation and institutional adjustments in EU fisheries policy. This analysis has implications for the debate between punctuated equilibrium and thermostatic models of policy-making and our understanding of the effectiveness of EU fisheries policies
The politics of the European Union / Herman Lelieveldt and Sebastiaan Princen.
No full textIncludes index.economic&political bookfair2015xxvi, 313 pages :"A new introduction to the European Union which uses the lens of comparative politics. This approach helps students understand the EU through comparisons with domestic politics and links with broader debates in political science. The text is supported by numerous examples, and chapters include briefings, fact files and controversy boxes which highlight important information and controversial issues in EU politics to widen and deepen student understanding. The authors have developed online 'Navigating the EU' exercises that introduce students to useful sources of information on the internet and help them to analyse policy-making in the EU. This textbook is a comprehensive introduction to EU politics and covers history, theory, key institutions and participants, as well as policies and policy-making"-- Provided by publisher
Venue shifts and policy change in EU fisheries policy
No full textOver the past two decades profound changes have taken place in the European Union's (EU) fisheries policy. Partly these changes have occurred within the EU's Common Fisheries Policy itself, but partly policy change has been effected by the application of environmental legislation and policy instruments to fisheries issues. This article argues that the process of policy change in EU fisheries policy can best be understood in terms of the interaction of policy images and policy venues that is at the core of the punctuated equilibrium theory of policy-making. As a result of the rise of a biodiversity perspective on fisheries issues, environmental policy-makers have become active in fisheries issues, which has led to profound changes in both the content of fisheries policies and the institutional organisation around this issue area.European Union Common Fisheries Policy Policy change Punctuated equilibrium theory Venue shopping
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
"The California Effect in the EC’s External Relations: A Comparison of the Leghold Trap and Beef-Hormone Issues Between the EC and the U.S. and Canada"
Full text linkThe central question of this paper is: What factors contribute to the success and failure of the European Community in imposing its standards upon the United States and Canada through international trade measures? I will answer this question by studying two cases: one in which the EC succeeded (to some extent) in imposing stricter standards upon the US and Canada, and one in which the EC attempted but failed to influence American and Canadian standards. As a “successful” case I have studied the EC ban on the use of leghold traps in trapping fur-bearing animals; the “unsuccessful” case is the EC ban on the use of growth promoting hormones in meat production
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