Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy: History of a Paradigm Change (Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics)

Author: Isabelle Garzon

Price £45.00 Publisher Palgrave Macmillan Publication date 04 August 2006 ISBN 978-0230001848

Publication synopsis "Reforming the Common Agricultural Policy" presents an unprecedented comparison of three successive major reforms of the CAP. It shows the influence of related issues such as international trade negotiations and budget constraints. It demonstrates that endogenous factors such as the opening of the policy network and policy feedback were key to producing and accelerating change. Contrary to what is sometimes argued, the result of this cumulative change is a clear change in the paradigm of agricultural policy, from a 'dependant' paradigm into a multifunctional one.

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