Why Europe’s farms are thickly layered with policy
The study of policy reform has tended to focus on single-stage reforms taking place over a relatively short period — and suggested that such reforms often do not endure. Carsten Daugbjerg and Alan Swinbank take a long view of Europe’s Common Agriculture Policy and reach a different conclusion. An accretion of layers “may create sustainability dynamics that can result in lasting reform trajectories.” Read the article.