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

By C. Daugbjerg, P. Feindt. Transforming Food and Agricultural Policy, 2017

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ABSTRACT Framing the special issue on the transformation of Food and Agricultural Policy, this article 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. Discussing stability, the authors distinguish between complementary and tense post-exceptionalism.

Subfields: General Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Plant Science

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In General Agricultural and Biological Sciences

1. G. Alons
2. K. Zawalińska
3. Jeroen J. L. Candel
4. D. Maye
5. P. Feindt
6. E. Mathijs
7. H. Hansson
8. Robert Finger

In Plant Science

1. G. Alons
2. Jeroen J. L. Candel
3. D. Maye
4. E. Mathijs
5. Carl Johan Lagerkvist
6. Robert Finger
7. A. Tregear

Citations in the corpus

• Environmental policy integration in the EU’s common agricultural policy: greening or greenwashing? (2017, background): “Agricultural exceptionalism is about treating the agricultural sector differently from other economic sectors and includes a ‘belief system that provides cognitive justification andpolitical legitimation’ for this special treatment (Daugbjerg and Feindt 2017).”
• ‘Feeding 9 billion people’: global food security debates and the productionist trap (2017, background): “In the terms of that special issue (Daugbjerg and Feindt 2017), we want to understand how and why productionist ideas, which typically support exceptionalist privileges for agricultural producers, tend to colonize and shape the food security issue despite its post-exceptionalist (transversal and…”
• A framework to assess the resilience of farming systems (2019, background): “…e.g. due to trade wars, political boycotts or Brexit (Maye et al., 2018), the shift towards less stable and less protective policy environments (Daugbjerg and Feindt, 2017) and increasing controversy about agricultural practices (Guyton et al., 2015; Myers et al., 2016) such as novel breeding…”