'Who Are Europe's Farmers?' Accession to the EU and Organized Professional Interests - Evidence from the Czech Republic
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Jan 10, 2007
Iglika Yakova
Abstract
The article addresses the issue of the intermediation of professional interests in the Central and Eastern European Countries (CEEC) acceding to the European Union (EU). Specifically, the author traces and analyzes the agricultural professional interests in the Czech Republic in order to analyze the extent to which ‘Europe’ has been affecting organized interests in newly-joined EU member states. The goal is to enlighten the complex and changing relationship between the post-communist legacy and the incremental European incentives, which influence the structures and identities of organized interest groups. As such, we are interested in the Czech Chamber of Agriculture and its two partner associations, from its creation until the accession of the Czech Republic to the EU.
How to Cite
Yakova, I. . (2007) “’Who Are Europe’s Farmers?’ Accession to the EU and Organized Professional Interests - Evidence from the Czech Republic ”, The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food. Paris, France, 15(1), pp. 46–58. doi: 10.48416/ijsaf.v15i1.298.
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Ágh, Attila, Jarmila CURTISS and Ladislav JELÍNEK (2005), “Czech agricultural associations and the impact of membership on farm efficiency”, Paper presented at the EAAE Seminar on Institutional Units in Agriculture, held in Wye, UK, April 9-10.
Blazek, Petr (2002), “Reprezentace Z?m?delských Zajm? v Politickém systému ?eské republiky: ekonomické (profesní) zájmové skupiny”, Politologicka revue 1, cerven, pp. 22- 38.
Börzel, Tanja, RISSE, Thomas (2000). “When Europe Hits Home: Europeanization and Domestic Change”, European Integration Online Papers ( EIoP), 4 (15), http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2001-006a.htm.
Börzel, Tanja, RISSE, Thomas (1997), “What's So Special About Policy Networks? – An Exploration of the Concept and Its Usefulness in Studying European Governance”, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/1997-016a.htm
Bulmer, Simon and Lequesne, Christian (2002), “ New perspectives on EU-Member state relationship”, Questions de recherche, 4 January, CERI, Sciences-po, http://www.ceri-sciences-po.org.
Cardwell, Michael (2004), The European Model of Agriculture, Oxford, Oxford University Press.
Cawson, Alan (1986), Corporatism and Political Theory, Oxford, Basil Blackwell.
CEA, COPA, COGECA (1995), “Séminaire paneuropéen sur le rôle des agriculteurs et des organisations professionnelles agricoles dans l’élaboration et la mise en oeuvre des politiques pour le développement agricole et rural ”, Congress of European Agriculture, Council of Europe, Strasbourg, 14 September.
Checkel, Jeffrey (1999), “Social construction and integration”, Journal of European Public Policy, 6:4 Special Issue, p. 545-60.
Crowley, Stephen and David Ost (2001), “The Ideological Legacy of Communism”, in Stephen CROWLEY, David OST, Workers after Workers’ States, Oxford, Kowman and Littlefield Publication.
Dakowska, Dorota and Laure Neumayer (2004) “Pour une approche sociologique de l’élargissement : les acteurs européens dans les nouveaux Etats membres de l’UE ”, Contribution for the workshop Study of ‘Europe’, AFSP, “L’élargissement de l’Union : un premier bilan ”, IEP de Bordeaux, 4 June.
Doucha, Tomas (2004), “Nova structura Zajmu v ceskem zemedelstvi jako duslek jeho reformy po roce 1989”, Paper presented at a seminar in 2003.
EUROBAROMETER, What Europeans think of the CAP, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION, (2000) EC Agenda 2000: For a Stronger and Wider Union: Bulletin of the European Union, Supplement 5/97 COM (97) 2000.
EUROPEAN COMMISSION (2002), Mid-term Review of the Common Agricultural Policy Proposals, July.
Falkner, Gerda (1999), Interest Groups in a Multi-level Polity: The Impact of European Integration on National Systems, RSC 1999/34, EUI Working Papers.
Fink-Hafner, Danica (1998), “Organized Interests in the Policy-making Process in Slovenia ”, Journal of European Public Policy, (5)2 June, pp. 285-302.
Gatzweiler, Franz (2005), “Central and Eastern European Agriculture and Environment: The Challenges of Governance at Multiple Level”, Sociologia Ruralis, (45)3, July, pp.139 – 152.
Gorton, Matthew, Philip Lowe, Anett Zellei( 2005), “Pre-accession Europeanization: The Strategic Realignment of the Environmental Policy Systems of Lithuania, Poland and Slovakia towards Agricultural Pollution in Preparation for EU Membership”, Sociologia Ruralis, (45)3, Oct., pp. 202 – 223.
Grabbe Heather (2003), “Europeanization Goes East: Power and Uncertainty in the EU Accession Process”, in FEATHERSTONE Kevin and Claudio RADAELLI, The Politics of Europeanization, Oxford, Oxford University Press, pp. 303 - 325.
Green Cowles, Maria, James Caporaso and Thomas Risse( eds.) (2001), Europeanization and Domestic Change, Ithaca, Cornell University Press.
Iankova, Elena A. (2002), Eastern European Capitalism in the Making, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press.
Ingleby, Susan J. (1996), “The role of indigenous institutions in the economic transformation of Eastern Europe: The Hungarian Chamber System – one step forward or two steps back?, Journal of European Public Policy, (3)1 March, pp. 102-121.
Jacquot, Sophie and Cornelia Woll (2003), “Usage of European Integration – Europeanization from a Sociological Perspective”, European Integration online Papers (EIoP), (7)12, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2003-012a.htm.
Kohler - Koch, Beate (2002), “European Networks and Ideas: Changing National Policies?” European Integration Online Papers (EIOP), (6)6, http://eiop.or.at/eiop/texte/2002-006a.htm.
Ladrech, Robert (1994): 'Europeanization of Domestic Politics and Institutions: The Case of France', Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 69-88.
MINISTRY FOR REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC (2000), Agriculture and Rural Development Plan of the Czech Republic, SAPARD, Prague, July.
MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC (2003), Summary Report.
Offerlé, Michel (1994), Sociologie des groupes d’intérêt, Paris, Montchrestien.
Olsen, Johan (2002), “The many Faces of Europeanization”, ARENA Working Papers WP 01/02, http://www.arena.uio.no/publications/wp02.htm.
Olson, Mancur (1971), The Logic of Collective Action, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.
Ost, David (1993), “The Politics of interest in Post-communist East Europe”, Theory and Society, (22)4, August, pp.455-486.
Radaelli, Claudio (2000), “Whither Europeanisation? Concept Stretching and Substantive Change”, European Integration online Papers (EioP) 4(8), http://eiop.or.at/texte/2000-008a.htm
Radaelli, Claudio (2004), “Europeanization: Solution or a Problem? ”, European Integration online Papers (EioP), 8 (16).
Saurugger, Sabine (2003), Européaniser les intérêts ? Les groupes d’intérêt économiques et l’élargissement de l’Union européenne, Paris, L’Harmattan
Schmitter, Philip (1979), “Modes of Interest Intermediation and Models of Societal Change in Western Europe”, in Philip SCHMITTER and Gerhard LEHMBRUCH, Trends Toward Corporatist Intermediation, London, Sage, pp. 63-94.
Sikor, Thomas (2005), “Property and Agri-Environmental Legislation in Central and Eastern Europe”. Sociologia Ruralis, (45)3, Oct. pp. 187- 201.
Stark, David (1992), “Path Dependence and Privatisation Strategies in East Central Europe”, East European Politics and Societies, (6)1, winter, p.22.
Stark, David and Laslo Bruszt (1998), Transforming Politics and Property in East Central Europe, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Streeck, Wolfgang and Philip SCHMITTER (1991), ”From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: Organized Interests in the Single European Market“, Politics and Society, (19) 2, pp. 133- 165.
Tulmets, Elsa (2005), “The Introduction of the Open Method of Coordination in the European Enlargement Policy: Analyzing the Impact of the New PHARE/Twinning Instrument”, European Political Economy Review, (3) 1, spring, pp. 54-91.
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