AG 003 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Common Agricultural Policy, Sicco Mansholt, Historical Institutionalism

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Agriculture (AG)
• Course: AG 003
• Professor: Hinojosa

Document Summary

There were even failed attempts to reform the cap, as the mansholt plan dating from 1960s shows. At the first glance it would seem impossible for historical institutionalists to account for the 1992 reforms and 2003 reforms of the common agricultural. Policy, as these are considered by some scholars to be major shifts in the evolution of the cap that have undermined all of the principles and arrangements that used to characterize this policy before 1990. To compensate for this loss in revenues, proportional, direct payments were granted to farmers on the basis of the area of land cultivated and according to historical estimates of yields. Also a set-aside scheme was introduced and its aim was to compensate for taking 15 percent of their land out of production. This reform is considered to be crucial because, as adrian kay correctly states26, Employ the critical junctures theory that views the development of a policy as a.