The political economy of differentiated integration: The case of common agricultural policy

Malang, Thomas; Holzinger, Katharina

doi:10.1007/s11558-020-09384-z

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“…What determines surplus countries long-term response to balance-of-payment crises? We argue that situations where "doing nothing" is not an optionfor example because a devaluation or default of a major deficit state in crisis also reverberates among surplus countries as it was the case in the Eurozone crisissurplus countries' approach to crisis management will be influenced by the preferences of important economic interest groups (Broz and Frieden 2001;Grossman and Helpman 2001;Malang and Holzinger 2020). During the Eurozone crisis, such economic groups were crucial for a number of reasons, especially when it came to internal adjustment.…”

Section: Adjustment Trade-offs For Economic Interest Groupsmentioning

confidence: 95%

We’d rather pay than change the politics of German non-adjustment in the Eurozone crisis

Redeker

Walter

2020

Rev Int Organ

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Germany’s large current account surplus has been widely criticized, especially against the backdrop of the role of macroeconomic imbalances in the Eurozone crisis. We argue that Germany’s resistance to reduce its massive current account surplus through an expansionary policy at home is rooted in distributive struggles about the design of possible adjustment policies. To explore this argument, we leverage original survey data from 135 German economic interest groups, qualitative interviews with interest group representatives and policymakers, and data from public opinion surveys. We show that while there is general support for internal adjustment among German interest groups, they disagree heavily about which specific policies should be implemented to achieve this goal. Together with a broad public and elite-based consensus to avoid a break-up of the Eurozone, this polarization turns financing into a politically attractive strategy. Rather than being rooted only in German ordoliberal ideas or Germany’s export-oriented structure, distributive conflicts contribute significantly to Germany’s resistance to reduce its large current-account surplus. Because similar dynamics can be observed in other surplus countries, we argue that distributive struggles within surplus countries played an important role in interstate conflicts about the management of the crisis.

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Section: Adjustment Trade-offs For Economic Interest Groupsmentioning

confidence: 95%

We’d rather pay than change the politics of German non-adjustment in the Eurozone crisis

Redeker

Walter

2020

Rev Int Organ

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“…The evidence in rural Africa clearly shows that households endowed with intellectual capital experience little incidences of chronic food insecurity. The educational status of the household head such as access to salaried work has direct impact on household consumption patterns through improved market access (Malang & Holzinger, 2020). This empirical analysis points to a sharp correspondence between years of schooling attained by household head and food security status of the household.…”

Section: Intellectual-capital Food Securitymentioning

confidence: 73%

“…As modern systems prove themselves neither sustainable nor equitable, with profound intergenerational consequencies for human wellbeing and prosperity, these politics have become highly charged. An intense politics of food security is unfolding across global cultures of the world (Malang & Holzinger, 2020).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

COVID-19’s Impact on the International Political Economy of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

Salifu¹

2021

RWE

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International political economy of food security has become a central theme in the development narrative, providing a lens through which contemporary challenges of development are intergrated, rationalized and synthetized for sustainable and equitable development. The paper explores the prominent role of food security in development narratives, but in broader conceptions of state and its social contracts. From the analysis of the spatio-temporal evolutions of households’ strategies for coping wth food insecurity and hunger, this paper clearly argues that food security defined as “access to enough preferred food” is fundamentally political. This study offers a set of different approaches to understanding the dynamics of food politics, grounded in broader theorectical traditions of power politics in food governance. The approaches are evaluated through an identification and analysis of a set of problematiques in food security governance gleaned from an overview of the major literature of note in food security and agricultural economics. The micropolitics of food that work in different constellations of ethnic power to perpetuate food insecurity are well outlined. The paper build upon this tensions by further questioning the regimes of power and how dominant political interests exercise themselves in corporate power structures, dismantling socially-oriented state approaches for enhancing food security. The relevance of intergrating the emerging dimensions of food politics and power, concerned with control of resources and opportunities for food production are also highlighted. With the politics of power not only concerned with material domination but directing rural people’s beliefs, values, behaviours and practices. As well as elaborating on the dorminant issues of food politics that have co-opted to increase food insecurity, the paper outlines alternative visions that are diverse and even incompatible on epistemological grounds. In so doing, the paper argues for triangulation of new ideas to shine the light from different angles to achieve sustainable and equitable food security in the Covid-19 era of food crises and deprivation. In this vein, the review, examines the impact of the mobility restraints set in 2020 by local governments to stem the spread of COVID-19 (SARS-CoV-2) on food security regimes in Africa, with particular emphasis on how the move has disrupted economies worldwide, disproportionately affecting livelihoods already threatened by poverty and hunger. Whilst the sections heretofore articulate the synergies between food and politics, so much is shared that this review reflects a richer picture of the political economy of food security on the international front.

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“…This implies that in the analysis of dietary deficiency of resource-poor households, growth failure of pre-schoolers under five may not be the most important indicator of malnutrition rather food intake as an outcome of nutritional security is important in measuring rural households processes toward future food security. An estimation of rural household food insecurity by food intake models are more closely related indicators of food and nutritional insecurity rather than its evaluation through growth failure models (Malang & Holzinger, 2020;Gillespie & Mason, 1991). This raises important questions for improving food in-take models for efficient and sustainable analysis of household dietary diversity especially in the northern parts of Ghana and Nigeria.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This category of households constitutes the transient-food insecure class of rural poor in the developing world. They are highly adaptable to the changing conditions and hazards of their environment (Malang & Holzinger, 2020).…”

Section: Resilient Rural Householdsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

Salifu¹

2021

IJBA

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This paper provides a summary of the international literature published in the thematic area of household dietary diversity with emphasis on the importance of sustainable approaches to global hunger and malnutrition. The paper highlights the correlation between inadequate household dietary diversity, child mortality and death. It also draws attention to the subtle combinations of social, economic and political interactions in enhancing nutritional welfare. The paper further raises a major argument that contemporary explorations of dietary diversity have failed to sustain the important tension and dialectical debate between diverse empirical realities and wider theorization of the concrete linkage of economic welfare to dietary diversity. The paper sets the tone for wider conceptualization of the phenomenon by clearly outlining the role of multiple relations of low incomes, inadequate maternal-child health care as well as poor environmental sanitation as leading predicators of under-nutrition in rural Africa. This theorization makes the case that, studying the relations and conjunctions of economic welfare via the agency of dietary consumption, is critical for emergent processes of change as the given-evidence of under-nutrition does not allow economists to draw solid conclusions on status of dietary diversity in rural Africa without a dynamic understanding and explicit recognition of the wider abstractions of political economy undercurrents in economic welfare and nutritional well-being literature. That said, the paper re-affirms the subtle evidence that under-nutrition and reduced body-mass of adults, often cited in the development literature as proxy-indicators of poor dietary diversity, needs to be re-evaluated as reduced body-mass in adults could be an indication of other incidences of environmental-stresses rather than of food-energy stress. In this vein, the review sustains a new argument that, resource-poor households modify attitude to food consumption in order to self-protect against income losses in household production systems. This position has implications for economic welfare and nutritional diversity research as food may not always come first for the resource-poor. It also opens new avenues for economic research by projecting the hypothesis that consumption of nutritious diets cannot be seen as a unique object to be sought by resource-poor to the exclusion of all other priorities including raising income frontiers through savings for wealth accumulation. The pre-eminence of food security over income diversification activities of rural households as a broader strategy to reduce malnutrition and poverty in the developing world could be re-examined to give livelihood activities a central role in household dietary diversity research.

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The political economy of differentiated integration: The case of common agricultural policy

Cited by 23 publications

References 48 publications

We’d rather pay than change the politics of German non-adjustment in the Eurozone crisis

We’d rather pay than change the politics of German non-adjustment in the Eurozone crisis

COVID-19’s Impact on the International Political Economy of Food Security in Sub-Saharan Africa

The Proof of Economic Welfare Is in the Eating of Nutritious Diets by the Resource-Poor: A Political Economy Analysis of the International Evidence of Dietary Consumption in Rural Africa

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