"Big bang" enlargement and Common agricultural policy reform

Lovec, Marko (author), Erjavec, Emil (author)

The article analyses the influence of the 2004 enlargement and of the 1998-2002 accession negotiations on the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform. In contrast to the dominant liberal institutional poltical economy models that explain pre-enlargement CAP reforms in terms of the negative trade related policy externalities, the common instituional setting, a critical realist explanatory model is proposed. In accordance with the model, the reforms were facilitated by the conflicting interests and the differences in capacity of the capital fixed to agricultural production in the member states and the candidate countries. The capacity of the agro-capital is defined by comparing the agricultural production structures, which were in the case of the old member states sustaining high levels of the fixed capital and which were in the case of the candidate countries, on average, underdeveloped and under-capitalized. The model is supportes by the empirical analysis of the CAP reform and the accession negotiations process.

• Language: English
• Keywords: kmetijstvo, CAP, skupna kmetijska politika, reforme, države kandidatke, EU
• Work type: Not categorized
• Typology: 1.02 - Review Article
• Organization: BF - Biotechnical Faculty
• Year: 2012
• Number of pages: Str. 219-238
• Numbering: Vol. 21, no. 1(115)
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-36556
• UDC: 631
• ISSN on article: 1330-0288
• DOI: 10.5559/di.21.1.12
• COBISS.SI-ID: 3035528
• Publication date in RUL: 10.07.2015

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Društvena istraživanja. časopis za opća društvena pitanja
• Shortened title: Druš. istraž.
• Publisher: Institut društvenih znanosti Ivo Pilar
• ISSN: 1330-0288
• COBISS.SI-ID: 4174601

Secondary language

• Language: English
• Title: "Veliki prasak" proširenja i reforma Zajedničke poljoprivredne politike