The negative externalities of the agro-industrial production model are well documented. In the European Union, agro-food diversification is currently hailed as the means of delivering a new production logic, multifunctional agriculture, that advocates utilisation of territorially embedded assets...

Recent studies of the role of lobby groups in European Union (EU) policymaking have drawn attention to the concept of 'multilevel governance' as a powerful explanatory tool in analysing how these organisations exert political influence on EU institutions. One of the longest standing of these...

We investigate the influence of the European Parliament (EP) in European Union (EU) decisionmaking. Two principal concepts are developed to explain EP influence in agricultural policy: those of agenda territories and agenda interlocking. The authors look at the EP's influence in policy shaping...

Traditionally, agrarian beliefs have been assigned an important place in studies of the formative processes of agricultural policymaking. However, such work has tended to privilege these beliefs with a passive, conditioning, or reactive role in decisionmaking and decision taking. In this paper,...

We examine the role of the European Commission in the formulation and negotiation of a Council regulation on agri-environmental policy (EU 2078/92). We show how this regulation was shaped largely by political opportunism and financial and administrative realities, rather than by stringent...