CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2012
| Author | Lessmann, David Maria |
|---|---|
| Title | The Institutionalisation of the Precautionary Principle and Agencification of Risk Analysis in the European Union - Insights from Food Safety and Chemicals Regulation |
| Summary | Risk regulation in the fields of EU food safety and chemicals management has been characterised by two general trends of European governance over the past decade: the growing importance of the precautionary principle and agency governance. This thesis analyses the historical institutionalisation of the precautionary principle in both fields as well as the coincident establishment of the European Food Safety Authority and the European Chemicals Agency, asking for which reasons and how the respective measures have been adopted and implemented. Methodologically, a well-structured historical narrative that is informed by qualitative analysis of official Community documents will be employed in order to delineate the relevant proceedings. Since it has been argued that historical institutionalism as a theoretical approach is better suited to analyses of institutional persistence, its explanatory potential for these two cases that clearly brought forward institutional change will also be analysed. It is shown that historical institutionalism is conceptually well equipped to account for the relevant processes in both food law and chemicals regulation. |
| Supervisor | Puetter, Uwe |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2012/lessmann_david.pdf |
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