Although the history of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is dominated by a process of centralisation, growing pressures to integrate agri-environmental problems into the CAP have revealed the need to embrace decentralised approaches in an efficient federal structure. Indeed, in recent years...

Introduction : issues, theory, and methods -- Explaining regional differences in economic organization across Europe -- The new institutional economics, field systems, and economic change -- Rural institutions and agrarian change in England -- Rural institutions and agrarian change in the...