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The Common Agricultural Policy:The Fortress Challenged
No full textToday’s common agricultural policy (CAP) is a policy in flux. While still absorbing a large share of the European Union (EU) budget, the CAP today bears little resemblance to the arcane and highly segmented system of market support of the 1960s. Many agricultural policy issues have become so tied up with trade, climate, environmental, and budget issues that the CAP is losing its narrow sectoral character. CAP policy-making has become a hybrid of the Community method, the regulatory mode, and even the distributive mode. The machinery producing CAP legislation has become more differentiated and open as competing logics of intervention increasingly drive the policy process, and the core character of farm issues and sometimes even farm policy players is changing. As this happens and member states have obtained increasing national flexibility, one of the main challenges for CAP policy-makers is to sustain a collective sense of purpose and prevent the fragmentation of the single agricultural market and implementation is becoming a more critical and politicized phase of CAP policy-making
The Common Agricultural Policy:The Fortress Challenged
No full textToday’s common agricultural policy (CAP) is a policy in flux. While still absorbing a large share of the European Union (EU) budget, the CAP today bears little resemblance to the arcane and highly segmented system of market support of the 1960s. Many agricultural policy issues have become so tied up with trade, climate, environmental, and budget issues that the CAP is losing its narrow sectoral character. CAP policy-making has become a hybrid of the Community method, the regulatory mode, and even the distributive mode. The machinery producing CAP legislation has become more differentiated and open as competing logics of intervention increasingly drive the policy process, and the core character of farm issues and sometimes even farm policy players is changing. As this happens and member states have obtained increasing national flexibility, one of the main challenges for CAP policy-makers is to sustain a collective sense of purpose and prevent the fragmentation of the single agricultural market and implementation is becoming a more critical and politicized phase of CAP policy-making
The European Policy Process in a Comparative Perspective
No full textPolicy-making in the European Union (EU) is particularly complex and is distinctive. Nonetheless, it can be fruitfully studied by drawing upon insights from the analysis of policy-making within states and cooperation among states. This chapter sets out the stages of the policy-making process—agenda-setting, policy formation, decision-making, implementation, and feedback—introduces the prevailing approaches to analysing each of these stages, and discusses how these apply to studying policy-making in the EU. It argues that theories rooted in comparative politics and international relations can explain different phases of the EU’s policy process. This chapter also helps to explain why policy-making varies across issue areas within the EU
The European Policy Process in a Comparative Perspective
No full textPolicy-making in the European Union (EU) is particularly complex and is distinctive. Nonetheless, it can be fruitfully studied by drawing upon insights from the analysis of policy-making within states and cooperation among states. This chapter sets out the stages of the policy-making process—agenda-setting, policy formation, decision-making, implementation, and feedback—introduces the prevailing approaches to analysing each of these stages, and discusses how these apply to studying policy-making in the EU. It argues that theories rooted in comparative politics and international relations can explain different phases of the EU’s policy process. This chapter also helps to explain why policy-making varies across issue areas within the EU
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