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The European Union's common agricultural policy reforms = towards a critical realist approach /

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The European Union's common agricultural policy reforms/ by Marko Lovec.
Reminder of title:	towards a critical realist approach /
Author:	Lovec, Marko.
Published:	London :Palgrave Macmillan UK : : 2016.,
Description:	xiii, 195 p. :digital ; : 22 cm.;
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Agriculture and state - European Union countries. -
Online resource:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57278-3
ISBN:	9781137572783

The European Union's common agricultural policy reforms = towards a critical realist approach /
Lovec, Marko.

The European Union's common agricultural policy reformstowards a critical realist approach /[electronic resource] :by Marko Lovec. - London :Palgrave Macmillan UK :2016. - xiii, 195 p. :digital ;22 cm. - Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations. - Central and Eastern European perspectives on international relations..

Introduction: change and controversy of the European Union's Common agricultural policy -- PART I: Theoretical framework -- Chapter 1: Existing approaches towards explaining and understanding CAP reforms -- 1.1 Explaining agricultural policy -- 1.2 Explaining Common agricultural policy -- 1.3 Explaining CAP reforms -- 1.4 Understanding CAP reforms -- Chapter 2: Critical realist approach towards explaining CAP reforms -- 2.1 Theories of science -- 2.2 Critical realist explanation of CAP reforms -- 2.3 Research designon: beyond 'new wine in old bottles'.

This book engages in the controversies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reforms, demonstrating how these are reiterated by mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. The reforms that the European Union's CAP underwent during the last three decades were intended to make it less trade-distorting, more taxpayer-friendly and more able to meet the new challenges of environmental concerns and rural development/territorial cohesion. The outcome of the reforms has, however, contradicted these objectives, with the controversies being reiterated by the mainstream theoretical approaches in the field. European Union's Common Agricultural Policy Reforms argues that these controversies are due to reductionist, rationalist and idealist assumptions with regard to the object of inquiry applied by mainstream approaches. It proposes an alternative critical approach that takes into account the role of real material factors. Critical realism is not just an alternative explanation of CAP reforms but an alternative theory of how explanations can be made, which enables readers to reflect upon and endorse the results of existing lines of research in proceeding towards deeper level theory.

ISBN: 9781137572783

Standard No.: 10.1057/978-1-137-57278-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

565758
Agriculture and state
--European Union countries.

LC Class. No.: HD1918

Dewey Class. No.: 338.184

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