CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2017
| Author | Thaning, Tea Sofie |
|---|---|
| Title | Involvement of Social Constituency in the EU Commission's Policy Process: The Organic Farming Regulation Policy |
| Summary | The European Commission has made apparent efforts to include various social groups and the public at large as a means of establishing a stronger justification for the legislative process in the Union. Through the White Paper on Governance from 2001, the Commission attempted to elaborate on how this could be achieve, thus making “involvement” one of the corner stones for EU governance. While recognizing the obvious limits to how and to what extent the Commission can include a public and civil society’s preferences, I question why the Commission failed to live up to its own commitments to include the public and civil society into the policy-making process. I do this by tracing the process of two regulations on organic farming in the EU to see how this discrepancy can be explained, from institutionalist and deliberative democracy theory perspectives. |
| Supervisor | Granger, Marie-Pierre |
| Department | International Relations MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2017/thaning_tea.pdf |
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