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Greening the Countryside? Changing Frameworks of EU Agricultural Policy

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Philip Lowe

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Abstract

In response to wide-ranging criticism of agricultural policy, especially within Western industrialized countries, new frameworks of justification are emerging and new hybrid policy fields have been established to tackle some of the 'externalities' of agricultural support. However, institutional frameworks are proving slower to change, partly because this would require coordinated action across different levels of governance. Nevertheless, previously marginalized environmental concerns have successfully gained entrance to agricultural policy networks, while the intersection of trade liberalization and rural diversification have undermined the dominance of the productivist mindset in government. This gives rise to a plurality of policy actors and actions which defy the conventional categories of analysis of agricultural policy, calling for changing frameworks on the polity of agriculture too.

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Author(s): Lowe P, Feindt PH, Vihinen H

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Public Administration

Year: 2010

Volume: 88

Issue: 2

Pages: 287-295

Print publication date: 10/06/2010

ISSN (print): 0033-3298

ISSN (electronic): 1467-9299

Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01835.x

DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9299.2010.01835.x

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