Drawing on comparative politics and social network analysis, this
book examines how the domestic institutional and organizational
settings, as well as the network governance patterns, determine
variation in administrative responses to EU's Common Agricultural
Policy (CAP) in two European Union (EU) member states, Denmark and
Greece. These two small member states represent the North and South
dimensions of the EU. The north-south dimension in relation to
administrative structures, respond differently to EU common
policies and to Common Agricultural Policy, specifically which has
not been studied in the Europeanization literature. Even though,
the study of administrative responses to EU common policies is
important as it has been especially noticeable during the current
financial crisis. Europeanisation studies concentrate on either
large Western European states (France, Germany and UK) or small
Western Northern states. These studies produced detailed knowledge
on specific countries and policy areas but they ignored the
agricultural policy area and the importance of small Southern
member states. By comparing a small Southern with a small Northern
state since the accession to the EU, this book aims to fill this
gap in the literature. Moreover, by linking the findings of the two
cases to the member states that joined the EU in the 2004 fifth
enlargement, and in other policy areas, it allows a better
understanding of similar responses, either adaptation or
inertia."This book represents an important contribution to the
theoretical and empirical literature on Europeanisation and the
Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). It systematically tackles an
under studied question: does Europeanisation of policies lead to
administrative change and convergence among the member states? The
domestic administration of the EU CAP has remained domestically
designed and monitored, resulting in divergence among the member
states and gaps and imbalances in the performance of EU CAP
decisions. The CAP is of more general interest because it combines
regulatory and market intervention policy instruments. The analysis
proceeds through in depth comparative historical case studies of
Denmark and Greece which uses a sophisticated combination of
quantitative and qualitative methodologies. The authoritative and
informative analysis is structured by a focus on three key domestic
factors. There is differentiated administration of common policies
and while administration succeeds and adapts in one state, it does
not necessarily do so in others, leading to differences in
implementation performance. This book should provide a stimulus for
further research." Wyn Grant, University of Warwick The last 40
years have been crucial for the European agriculture. The Common
Agricultural Policy fulfilled its primary objective, which led
Europeans to shift its objectives and cope with the shortcomings
created by the success of the Policy itself manage surpluses and
narrow the gap between farmers, due to price mechanism as well as,
adapt the policy following the successive enlargements and follow
the developments in the global economy, in which we live nowadays.
Dr. Chatzopoulou gives us a very accurate image on how differently
actors of the agricultural economy, farmers, cooperatives and the
administrations both in Greece and Denmark, behave. But also, how
different is the structure of the sector in these two countries: in
Denmark, almost everything is based upon a consensus, where there
does not exist a law on cooperatives, and where the administration
and the sector work together to adapt or to influence the decisions
to take at European level. On the other hand, in Greece, farmers
struggle to make their voice heard in the absence of professional
organizations, the cooperatives are bound to work in the framework
of a specific and strict law and the administration was not shown
very cooperative with the sector. These two realities are very well
illustrated by the author and many lessons are to be learnt through
this study. But, above all, the author gives us a fair idea of how
complex is the process of Europeanisation in a Europe Union
composed of sovereign member-States with different history,
culture, social organization and different legal systems. Vaggelis
Divaris, Former European Commission principal administrator (DG
Agriculture and Rural Development)
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