Special issue: Post-exceptionalism in public policy: transforming food and agricultural policy

This special issue on the transformation of food and agricultural policy introduces the concept of post-exceptionalism in public policies. The analysis of change in agri-food policy serves as a generative example to conceptualize current transformations in sectoral policy arrangements in democratic welfare states.

Often these arrangements have been characterized by an exceptionalist ideational framework that legitimizes a sector’s special treatment through compartmentalized, exclusive and producer-centered policies and politics. In times of internationalization of policy-making, increasing interlinkage of policy areas and trends towards self-regulation, liberalization and performance-based policies, policy exceptionalism is under pressure to either transform or give way to (neo-)liberal policy arrangements.

Post-exceptionalism denotes a partial transformation of exceptionalist ideas, institutions, interest constellations and policy instruments. It reflects the more complex, open, contested and fluid nature of contemporary policy fields that nevertheless still maintain their policy heritage.

Articles:

+ Post-exceptionalism in public policy: transforming food and agricultural policy Carsten Daugbjerg & Peter H. Feindt
+ Post-exceptional politics in agriculture: an examination of the 2013 CAP reform Alan Greer
+ Environmental policy integration in the EU’s common agricultural policy: greening or greenwashing? Gerry Alons
+ Party support for post-exceptionalism in agri-food politics and policy: Germany and the United Kingdom compared Jale Tosun
+ Post-exceptionalism and corporate interests in US agricultural policy Adam Sheingate, Allysan Scatterday, Bob Martin & Keeve Nachman
+ ‘Feeding 9 billion people’: global food security debates and the productionist trap Eve Fouilleux, Nicolas Bricas & Arlène Alpha
+ Global organic agriculture policy-making through standards as an organizational field: when institutional dynamics meet entrepreneurs Sandra Schwindenhammer
+ The resilience of paradigm mixes: food security in a post-exceptionalist trade regime Carsten Daugbjerg, Arild Aurvåg Farsund & Oluf Langhelle