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Information processing in the European Union's Common Fisheries Policy
- The policy studies literature is divided on how information processing takes place in policy processes. Punctuated equilibrium theory claims that policymakers tend to process information disproportionately, giving more weight to some incoming signals than to others. By contrast, thermostatic models of policymaking argue that policymakers respond in a more proportionate way. In this paper, we analyse information processing in the adoption of Total Allowable Catches (TACs) under the European Union’s (EU) Common Fisheries Policy. Based on a novel measure for the proportionality of information processing, it shows that over time TACs have become more closely aligned with incoming signals about fish stocks. This development can be explained through a combination of changing discourses around fisheries conservation and institutional adjustments in EU fisheries policy. This analysis has implications for the debate between punctuated equilibrium and thermostatic models of policymaking and our understanding of the effectiveness of EU fisheries policies.
Author: | Sebastiaan Princen, Katrijn Siderius, Sebastián Villasante |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-627382 |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0143814X20000124 |
ISSN: | 1469-7815 |
Parent Title (English): | Journal of public policy |
Publisher: | Cambridge Univ. Press |
Place of publication: | Cambridge [u.a.] |
Document Type: | Article |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2020/06/23 |
Date of first Publication: | 2020/06/23 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/05/04 |
Tag: | European Union; disproportionate information processing; fisheries policy; punctuated equilibrium theory; thermostatic policy change |
Volume: | 41 |
Issue: | 3 |
Page Number: | 21 |
First Page: | 532 |
Last Page: | 552 |
Note: | S. V. acknowledges funding from the EU COST Action “Ocean Governance for Sustainability - Challenges, Options and the Role of Science” and the ICES Science Fund Project “Social Transformations of Marine Social-Ecological Systems”. |
HeBIS-PPN: | 495919691 |
Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 32 Politikwissenschaft / 320 Politikwissenschaft |
Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung 4.0 |