EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE DESIGNS OF FOOD SAFETY REGULATION: EVIDENCE FROM 15 EU COUNTRIES
Tesi di Dottorato
Data di Pubblicazione:
2019
Citazione:
EFFECTIVE GOVERNANCE DESIGNS OF FOOD SAFETY REGULATION: EVIDENCE FROM 15 EU COUNTRIES / G. Bazzan ; supervisor: Alessia Damonte; coordinatore: M. Jessoula. DIPARTIMENTO DI SCIENZE SOCIALI E POLITICHE, 2019 Jul 18. 31. ciclo, Anno Accademico 2018. [10.13130/bazzan-giulia_phd2019-07-18].
Abstract:
This research investigates differences in effectiveness of food safety regulation across the EU
countries and explains them by differences in domestic governance design. The focus is justified by
a pragmatic consideration, inspired by the Institutional Analysis and Development framework (IAD:
Ostrom 2005, 2011): although policy effectiveness more directly depends on a wide array of noninstitutional
factors, the institutional dimension of governance is the one on which intervention is
relatively easier, and that shapes actors’ strategies and endowments. Drawing on this tenet, this work
asks which institutional features of the national governance design make food safety regulation
effective. Given the configurational nature of institutional effects (Ostrom, 1986), Qualitative
Comparative Analysis (QCA) is the suitable technique to find out the necessary and sufficient
conditions associated with high / low effectiveness of food safety regulation. To emphasize the effects
of governance designs, the study narrows on those Member States in which the implementation of
the European reform has consolidated (with the Regulation 178/2002). As all the Member States
accessing the EU in 2004 and 2007 have this regulatory system still in the making – the Central and
Eastern European Countries, but also Malta and Cyprus – this research identifies its scope condition
in the EU 15, i.e. the countries that joined the European Union before 2004. Results show that capacity
plays a prominent role for an effective response, unfolding its effect in combination with an integrated
model of distribution of the regulatory functions.
Tipologia IRIS:
Tesi di dottorato
Keywords:
regulation; governance; food safety; institutional analysis and development; QCA; qualitative comparative analysis
Elenco autori:
G. Bazzan
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