Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy

Post-exceptionalism in public policy

Carsten Daugbjerg, Peter Feindt

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Routledge
28 May 2018

Food & society; Public administration; Agriculture & related industries; Food & beverage technology

Series: Journal of European Public Policy Series

Western democratic welfare states often featured sectoral governance arrangements where governments negotiated policy with sectoral elites, based on shared ideas and exclusive institutional arrangements. Food and agriculture policy is widely considered an extreme case of compartmentalized and ‘exceptionalist’ policy-making, where sector-specific policy ideas and institutions provide privileged access for sectoral interest groups and generate policies that benefit their members. In the last two decades, policy exceptionalism has been under pressure from internationalization of policy-making, increasing interlinkage of policy areas and trends towards self-regulation, liberalization and performance-based policies. This book introduces the concept of ‘post-exceptionalism’ to characterize an incomplete transformation of exceptionalist policies and politics which preserves significant exceptionalist features. Post-exceptional constellations of ideas, institutions, interests and policies can be complementary and stable, or tense and unstable. Food and agriculture policy serves as an example to illustrate an incomplete transformation towards a more open, contested and networked politics. Chapters on agricultural policy-making in the European Union and the United States, the politics of food in Germany and the United Kingdom, transnational organic standard setting and global food security debates demonstrate how ‘postexceptionalism’ helps to understand the co-existence of transformation and path dependency in contemporary public policies.

The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.

Edited by: Carsten Daugbjerg, Peter Feindt
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 385g
ISBN: 9780815360360
ISBN 10: 0815360363
Series: Journal of European Public Policy Series
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 28 May 2018
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Carsten Daugbjerg is Professor of Food and Agricultural Policy in the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark, and an Honorary Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Australia. Peter H. Feindt is Professor of Agricultural and Food Policy in the Albrecht Daniel Thaer-Institute of Agricultural and Horticultural Sciences, Humboldt- University Berlin, Germany.