This book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes. Drawing upon the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, it investigates differences in effectiveness of food safety regulation and explains them by differences in domestic governance designs, by applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The empirical focus of the book is the food safety governance designs of 15 EU Member States, which are investigated through the collection of an original dataset inclusive of measures of independence and accountability of the domestic food safety agencies, of policy capacity and of food safety delivered. The results show the prominent role of the institutional dimension of policy capacity in producing regulatory effectiveness, in conjunction with an integrated model of distribution of the regulatory tasks. As to ineffective governance, the conjunction of low independence or low accountability with low institutional capacity produce ineffective responses.
By:
Giulia Bazzan
Imprint: Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 1st ed. 2021
Dimensions:
Height: 210mm,
Width: 148mm,
Weight: 355g
ISBN: 9783030827922
ISBN 10: 3030827925
Pages: 146
Publication Date: 27 September 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Chapter 1. Regulatory Governance, Policy Capacity, and Effectiveness of Regulation.- Chapter 2. Institutional Analysis of Regulatory Designs.- Chapter 3. The Research Design: Ontological and Methodological Questions.- Chapter 4. Gauging the Effectiveness of Food Safety Regulation. Chapter 5. Gauging Differences in National Governance Designs. Chapter 6. Effective Governance of Food Safety Regulation. Chapter 7. The Conjunction of Capacity and Quality of Regulatory Designs: Lessons for Effective Governance Designs./
Giulia Bazzan is a researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
