Effective Governance Designs of Food Safety Regulation in the EU

This book provides insights on regulatory effectiveness in the field of food safety, by focusing on the variety of institutional factors affecting regulatory outcomes. Drawing upon the Institutional Analysis and Development framework, it investigates differences in effectiveness of food safety regulation and explains them by differences in domestic governance designs, by applying Qualitative Comparative Analysis. The empirical focus of the book is the food safety governance designs of 15 EU Member States, which are investigated through the collection of an original dataset inclusive of measures of independence and accountability of the domestic food safety agencies, of policy capacity and of food safety delivered. The results show the prominent role of the institutional dimension of policy capacity in producing regulatory effectiveness, in conjunction with an integrated model of distribution of the regulatory tasks. As to ineffective governance, the conjunction of low independence or low accountability with low institutional capacity produce ineffective responses.

Investigates how institutional conditions affect the effectiveness of food safety regulation in 15 EU countries Uses empirical data to show the prominent role of policy capacity in producing regulatory effectiveness Brings insightful contributions to both policy analysis and the development of institutional analysis

Autorentext

Giulia Bazzan is a researcher at the Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Regulatory Governance, Policy Capacity, and Effectiveness of Regulation.- Chapter 2. Institutional Analysis of Regulatory Designs.- Chapter 3. The Research Design: Ontological and Methodological Questions.- Chapter 4. Gauging the Effectiveness of Food Safety Regulation. Chapter 5. Gauging Differences in National Governance Designs. Chapter 6. Effective Governance of Food Safety Regulation. Chapter 7. The Conjunction of Capacity and Quality of Regulatory Designs: Lessons for Effective Governance Designs./