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The European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms

Towards a Critical Realist Approach

Marko Lovec (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

178 Seiten

2016 | 2016 ed.
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-1-349-84787-7 (ISBN)

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This book engages in the controversies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union's CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors.
Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.

Marko Lovec is a Research fellow and Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He specializes in international political economy and European integration, with European Union's Common Agricultural Policy being his main topic of research.

Introduction: change and controversy of the European Union's Common agricultural policy.- PART I: Theoretical framework.- Chapter 1: Existing approaches towards explaining and understanding CAP reforms.- 1.1 Explaining agricultural policy.- 1.2 Explaining Common agricultural policy.- 1.3 Explaining CAP reforms.- 1.4 Understanding CAP reforms.- Chapter 2: Critical realist approach towards explaining CAP reforms.- 2.1 Theories of science.- 2.2 Critical realist explanation of CAP reforms.- 2.3 Research designon: beyond 'new wine in old bottles'.

Erscheinungsdatum	11.05.2016
Reihe/Serie	Central and Eastern European Perspectives on International Relations
Zusatzinfo	1 black & white illustrations, biography
Verlagsort	Basingstoke
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management
	Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
Schlagworte	Agenda 2000 • Critical political economy • Critical Realism • Fischler reform • Health check reform • International Political Economy • MacSharry reform
ISBN-10	1-349-84787-9 / 1349847879
ISBN-13	978-1-349-84787-7 / 9781349847877
Zustand	Neuware