Overview
- Investigates how institutional conditions affect the effectiveness of food safety regulation in 15 EU countries
- Uses empirical data to show the prominent role of policy capacity in producing regulatory effectiveness
- Brings insightful contributions to both policy analysis and the development of institutional analysis
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
Keywords
- food policy
- policy design
- policy capacity
- policy effectiveness
- food regulation
- qualitative comparative analysis
- comparative public policy
- institutional analysis
- regulatory governance
- policy capacity
- regulatory designs
- food safety regulation
- risk regulation
- food safety governance
- food safety delivered
- regulatory effectiveness
- food-related risk
- regulatory ineffectiveness
- policy capacity
About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Giulia Bazzan is a researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Effective Governance Designs of Food Safety Regulation in the EU
Book Subtitle: Do Rules Make the Difference?
Authors: Giulia Bazzan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-82793-9
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-82792-2Published: 27 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-82793-9Published: 25 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 146
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, Social Philosophy