The Common Agricultural Policy and Organic Farming: An Institutional Perspective on Continuity and Change (Cabi Publishing)

Title Page
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Cover
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Copyright
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Contents......Page 5
List of Tables......Page 11
List of Abbreviations......Page 13
Preface......Page 15
1 The Common Agricultural Policy and Institutional Change......Page 17
Continuity, Change and the Common Agricultural Policy......Page 18
Networks, Ideas and Policy Frames......Page 19
Venues and Issues......Page 22
Interlinked Developments at Various Levels of Negotiation......Page 23
Public-Choice and Principal-Agent Relationships......Page 25
Eclectic Approaches......Page 27
Summary: Explanations of Continuity and Change......Page 28
Five Challenges to the Study of Ideational Change......Page 31
Outline of the Book......Page 37
2 Institutional Change: Rational Choice, Historical and Sociological Perspectives......Page 39
Conceptualising and Explaining Institutional Change......Page 44
Costs and Benefits......Page 45
Learning......Page 46
The Power and 'Fit' of Ideas......Page 50
Policy Entrepreneurs......Page 52
Crisis as a Condition for Change......Page 55
Summary: Rational choice, Historical and Sociological Perspectives on Institutional Change......Page 56
3 A Discursive Institutional Approach and its Analytical Implications......Page 59
Ideas, Discourse and Institutions......Page 60
A Brief Methodological Introduction......Page 62
The Dynamics of Institutional Change: A Discursive Institutional Approach......Page 63
Alternative Discourse and Conflicts Over Meaning......Page 64
Translation......Page 68
From Policy Entrepreneurs to Policy Entrepreneurship......Page 70
Crisis as an Ideational Condition for Institutional Change......Page 73
Defining the Terms 'Linguistic Field' and 'Policy Field'......Page 74
Summary: The Dynamics of Institutional Change......Page 75
A Discursive Institutional Analytical Strategy......Page 76
Problems and Solutions as Ideational Symptoms......Page 77
Encircling the Empirical Research Object......Page 81
Measurements of Institutional Change Within the CAP......Page 84
An Overview of the Empirical Material......Page 87
4 The Translation and Institutionalisation of the World Problematique......Page 89
The Mansholt Plan (the CAP - late 1960slearly 1970s)......Page 90
The Identification of the World Problematique (early 1970s)......Page 93
The Emerging EC Environmental Policy (1973-1977)......Page 94
Translations and Institutionalisations (1968-1977)......Page 97
5 The Translation and Institutionalisation of Environmental  Ideas within the CAP (1978-1985)......Page 101
The Institutionalisation of Environmental Ideas within the CAP (1980-1985)......Page 102
Agricultural Ideas Within the Commission (Early 1980s)......Page 103
Organic Farming and Policy Entrepreneurship Within the EP (Early 1980s)......Page 105
Alternative Conceptions of Agriculture (1978-1985)......Page 112
Organic Farming Within the CAP (late 1970s)......Page 113
Organic Farming and Policy Entrepreneurship in Member States (1980-1985)......Page 116
Translations, Institutionalisations and Policy Entrepreneurship (1978-1985)......Page 118
6 Conflicts Over Meaning and Policy Entrepreneurship within the CAP (1986-1992)......Page 123
Conflicts Over Meaning Within the EP (mid-1980s)......Page 125
Policy Entrepreneurship Within the EP (1986-1992)......Page 129
Conflicts Over Meaning Within the Commission (late 1980s)......Page 131
Policy Entrepreneurship Within the Commission (late 1980s)......Page 134
Organic Farming and Policy Entrepreneurship in Member States (1986-1992)......Page 135
The Authorisation of Organic Farming (early 1990s)......Page 138
lnstitutionalisations, Conflicts Over Meaning and Policy Entrepreneurship (1986-1992)......Page 141
7 The Formation of a Policy Field: Organic Farming Within the CAP (1993-2005)......Page 147
Ideas Within the CAP (Towards the End of the Period)......Page 149
Organic Farming Within the CAP (1993-2005)......Page 152
The BSE Crisis (1996 onwards)......Page 156
Conflicts Over Boundaries Within the EP and the Commission (late 1990s)......Page 159
the Baden Conference (1999)......Page 161
Policy Entrepreneurship Within the EP and the Commission (late 1990s)......Page 163
the Copenhagen Conference......Page 164
Towards a European Action Plan for Organic Farming (Towards the End of the Period)......Page 168
Ideas Within Environmental Interest Organisations and IFOAM (mid1990s)......Page 169
Denmark, the Netherlands and Spain (1993 onwards)......Page 171
The UK and France (1996 Onwards)......Page 174
Germany, Sweden and Austria (Towards the End of the Period)......Page 176
lnstitutionalisations, Conflicts Over Boundaries and Policy Entrepreneurship (1993-2005)......Page 179
Recapturing the Argument......Page 185
The Pretext......Page 188
The CAP Before and After 1985......Page 189
The CAP Before and After 1992......Page 190
The CAP Before and After the Late 1990s......Page 191
A Discursive Institutional Conceptualisation of Institutional Change Within the CAP......Page 193
Reflections on the Virtues and Limitations of the Discursive Institutional Approach......Page 198
References......Page 207
Index......Page 223