Effective Governance Designs of Food Safety Regulation in the EU: Do Rules Make the Difference?

Preface
Contents
About the Author
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
Chapter 1: Regulatory Governance, Policy Capacity, and Effectiveness of Regulation
	Introduction
	Understanding Regulation and Its Governance
	Quality of Regulatory Designs
	Regulatory Effectiveness and Regulatory Failure
	Policy Capacity
	Risk Regulation and Its Governance
	This Contribution
	References
Chapter 2: Institutional Analysis of Regulatory Designs
	Introduction
	The Institutional Analysis and Development Framework: A Review
	The Institutional Analysis of Food Safety Regulatory Designs
	The Explanatory Model: Defining the Explanantes
		Independence and Accountability of Risk Assessment
		Institutional Separation of Regulatory Functions
		Institutional Capacity of Risk Management
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 3: The Research Design: Ontological and Methodological Questions
	Introduction
	Causal Mechanisms: Definitions and Theoretical Approaches
	The Methodological Question
	Qualitative Comparative Analysis: The Technique
	Case Selection
	Food Safety Regulatory Designs of the EU15
	References
Chapter 4: Gauging the Effectiveness of Food Safety Regulation
	Introduction
	What Is Effective Regulation?
	The Effectiveness of Food Safety Regulation: Existing Dimensions and Measures
	Towards a Different Operationalization of Effectiveness
	References
Chapter 5: Gauging Differences in National Governance Designs
	Introduction
	Independence and Accountability of Risk Assessment
	Institutional Separation of Risk Assessment from Risk Management
	Institutional Capacity of Risk Management
	Conclusion
	References
Chapter 6: Effective Governance of Food Safety Regulation
	Introduction
	Calibration
		Institutional Separation of Risk Assessment from Risk Management
		Formal Independence of Risk Assessment
		Formal Accountability of Risk Assessment
		Institutional Capacity of Risk Management
		Regulatory Effectiveness
	Analysis of Necessity
	Sufficient Conditions for Effective Governance of Food Safety Regulation
	Sufficient Conditions for Ineffective Governance of Food Safety Regulation
	Discussion of the Results
	References
Chapter 7: The Conjunction of Capacity and Quality of Regulatory Designs: Lessons for Effective Governance Designs
	Introduction
	Main Findings and Implications
		On the Shoulders of the IAD Framework
		Scope Conditions
		Conceptual and Operational Responses
	Future Research Agenda
	References
Appendix
Index