Doctoral Dissertation Research: Extra-Institutional Politics and the Construction of Europe: The Europeanization of Agricultural Politics

本博士论文研究的是1980 - 1995年法国的土地抗议活动。在此期间，农业集体行动是长期和普遍的，经常跨越国界。例如，布鲁塞尔和日内瓦的示威活动包括法国农民，斯特拉斯堡反对共同农业政策改革的抗议活动包括来自法国、德国和瑞士的农民。将在选定的法国地区收集抗议和网络数据，以回答以下问题。(1)土地抗议的根源是什么？(2)土地争夺对制度化的农业政治有何影响？(3)最近农民动员的模式是否反映了农业冲突体系的欧洲化？这项研究将检验这样一种假设，即1980年代不断扩大的政治机会使持不同政见的农民扩大了他们的支持者，并建立了新的组织间联系。结果，农民们结成了共同阵线，反对以前主导农业政策的新社团主义协议。本项目通过探索农业政治的“国家”和“地方”政治领域之间的关系，并通过考察“多层次治理”的具体组织基础，为欧盟多层次治理和争论的跨国化研究做出贡献。

This doctoral dissertation research investigates agrarian protest in France from 1980 to 1995. During this period, agrarian collective action was chronic and ubiquitous, frequently crossing national borders. For example, demonstrations in Brussels and Geneva included French farmers, and protests in Strasbourg against the Common Agricultural Policy Reforms included farmers from France, Germany, and Switzerland. Protest and network data will be collected in selected French localities to answer the following questions. (1) What are the sources of agrarian protest? (2) What effect does agrarian contention have on institutionalized agricultural politics? (3) Does this recent pattern of farmers' mobilization reflect the Europeanization of the agricultural conflict system? The research will test the hypothesis that expanding political opportunities in the 1980s enabled dissident farmers to broaden their constituency and to establish new interorganizational links. As a result, farmers forged a common front against the neocorporatist agreements that previously dictated agricultural policy. This project contributes to the research on multi-level governance in the European Union and the transnationalization of contention by exploring relations between the "national" and the "local" political arenas of agricultural politics, and by examining the concrete organizational foundations of "multilevel governance."