Gerry Alons
Biographic Data
| ID | 1668183 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gerry Alons |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gerry |
| FAMILY NAME | Alons |
| SIGNATURE | ALONS G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Radboud University Nijmegen |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2169-5510 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 87 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
In Vain or Virtue? Explaining Pesticide Reduction Ambitions in the EU Common Agricultural Policy National Strategic Plans
The development of national strategic plans (NSPs) under the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) involves considerable coordination between Member States and the (European) Commission. In this process, the Commission provides recommendations to each Member State before they submit their draft NSPs and observations at a later stage before Member States submit their final NSP. The Commission's assessment is based on the NSPs' contribution to the …
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP
n Contains fulltext :\n 284715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Reap what you sow
Government agencies responsible for policy implementation have expertise on policy practicability, efficiency and effectiveness, and knowledge which is provided to policymakers as feedback. However, we know very little about the feedback dynamics in which implementing agencies provide different types of feedback with the intention that it is used by policymakers, and the strategic decisions underlying these dynamics. This article connects the lit…
The advantage of paradigmatic contestation in shaping and selling public policies
While contestation between competing policy paradigms is usually considered to hamper the policy-making process, this article develops an argument explaining how paradigmatic contestation can also help policymakers obtain their preferred policies. Based on a typology of three paradigm situations – paradigm dominance, paradigmatic contestation and paradigm mixes – this article introduces three different types of strategies (paradigm stretching, ba…
Environmental policy integration in the EU’s common agricultural policy
n Contains fulltext :\n 176461pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
New Wine in Different Bottles
This article investigates the policy discourses at European level and in France, Germany and the UK during the debate on the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) post-2013 reform. The neoliberal discourse that has provided the intellectual justification for reform during the last decade is now increasingly combined with a 'public goods' discourse related to the multifunctionalist discourse of the 1990s. Innovating on earlier discursive analyses of th…
Legitimating the CAP
In its public discourse, the European Commission presented the EU’s most recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a paradigm change. Many observers of the CAP reform process, however, describe the recent agreement as a lost opportunity for change. This article describes and analyses the Commission’s discursive strategies in response to the legitimacy challenges regarding the CAP’s direct payments. We draw on the work of Mark Suchman (1995) to a…
Anti-Americanism and Trade Policy in Brazil and France
En este artículo se explora los efectos del anti-americanismo en la política comercial de Brasil durante la negociación del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas y en la política comercial francesa durante la Ronda Uruguay del GATT. Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre la conceptualización del anti-americanismo, sus causas y su presencia en distintos estados nacionales, la investigación acerca de sus efectos sobre la política y las políticas pública…
Farmers versus ideas
n Contains fulltext :\n 116903.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
European External Trade Policy
In the literature examining European Union external trade policy, the relative influence of the Commission, the member states and interest groups are an issue of ongoing debate. This article will argue that member states can still play an important role and that a focus on member state preferences is therefore crucial in understanding European external trade policy in general. An interest-based explanation of state preferences is proposed in whic…
La Grande Nationand Agriculture
n Contains fulltext :\n 111782.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Predicting a State?s Foreign Policy
In order to understand a state's foreign policy preferences, we need to take both its domestic and international considerations into account. This article aims to contribute to the analysis of foreign policy by exploring the conditions under which states will either give precedence to domestic or international incentives. Two central variables are used to generate predictions on the expected primacy of either level. The first variable is “interna…
Environmental policy integration in the EU’s common agricultural policy
n Contains fulltext :\n 176461pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Reap what you sow
Government agencies responsible for policy implementation have expertise on policy practicability, efficiency and effectiveness, and knowledge which is provided to policymakers as feedback. However, we know very little about the feedback dynamics in which implementing agencies provide different types of feedback with the intention that it is used by policymakers, and the strategic decisions underlying these dynamics. This article connects the lit…
New Wine in Different Bottles
This article investigates the policy discourses at European level and in France, Germany and the UK during the debate on the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) post-2013 reform. The neoliberal discourse that has provided the intellectual justification for reform during the last decade is now increasingly combined with a 'public goods' discourse related to the multifunctionalist discourse of the 1990s. Innovating on earlier discursive analyses of th…
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP
n Contains fulltext :\n 284715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The advantage of paradigmatic contestation in shaping and selling public policies
While contestation between competing policy paradigms is usually considered to hamper the policy-making process, this article develops an argument explaining how paradigmatic contestation can also help policymakers obtain their preferred policies. Based on a typology of three paradigm situations – paradigm dominance, paradigmatic contestation and paradigm mixes – this article introduces three different types of strategies (paradigm stretching, ba…
Predicting a State?s Foreign Policy
In order to understand a state's foreign policy preferences, we need to take both its domestic and international considerations into account. This article aims to contribute to the analysis of foreign policy by exploring the conditions under which states will either give precedence to domestic or international incentives. Two central variables are used to generate predictions on the expected primacy of either level. The first variable is “interna…
Legitimating the CAP
In its public discourse, the European Commission presented the EU’s most recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a paradigm change. Many observers of the CAP reform process, however, describe the recent agreement as a lost opportunity for change. This article describes and analyses the Commission’s discursive strategies in response to the legitimacy challenges regarding the CAP’s direct payments. We draw on the work of Mark Suchman (1995) to a…
Farmers versus ideas
n Contains fulltext :\n 116903.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
La Grande Nationand Agriculture
n Contains fulltext :\n 111782.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
European External Trade Policy
In the literature examining European Union external trade policy, the relative influence of the Commission, the member states and interest groups are an issue of ongoing debate. This article will argue that member states can still play an important role and that a focus on member state preferences is therefore crucial in understanding European external trade policy in general. An interest-based explanation of state preferences is proposed in whic…
Predicting a State?s Foreign Policy
In order to understand a state's foreign policy preferences, we need to take both its domestic and international considerations into account. This article aims to contribute to the analysis of foreign policy by exploring the conditions under which states will either give precedence to domestic or international incentives. Two central variables are used to generate predictions on the expected primacy of either level. The first variable is “interna…
La Grande Nationand Agriculture
n Contains fulltext :\n 111782.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
European External Trade Policy
In the literature examining European Union external trade policy, the relative influence of the Commission, the member states and interest groups are an issue of ongoing debate. This article will argue that member states can still play an important role and that a focus on member state preferences is therefore crucial in understanding European external trade policy in general. An interest-based explanation of state preferences is proposed in whic…
Anti-Americanism and Trade Policy in Brazil and France
En este artículo se explora los efectos del anti-americanismo en la política comercial de Brasil durante la negociación del Área de Libre Comercio de las Américas y en la política comercial francesa durante la Ronda Uruguay del GATT. Aunque mucho se ha escrito sobre la conceptualización del anti-americanismo, sus causas y su presencia en distintos estados nacionales, la investigación acerca de sus efectos sobre la política y las políticas pública…
Farmers versus ideas
n Contains fulltext :\n 116903.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
Legitimating the CAP
In its public discourse, the European Commission presented the EU’s most recent Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) as a paradigm change. Many observers of the CAP reform process, however, describe the recent agreement as a lost opportunity for change. This article describes and analyses the Commission’s discursive strategies in response to the legitimacy challenges regarding the CAP’s direct payments. We draw on the work of Mark Suchman (1995) to a…
New Wine in Different Bottles
This article investigates the policy discourses at European level and in France, Germany and the UK during the debate on the CAP (Common Agricultural Policy) post-2013 reform. The neoliberal discourse that has provided the intellectual justification for reform during the last decade is now increasingly combined with a 'public goods' discourse related to the multifunctionalist discourse of the 1990s. Innovating on earlier discursive analyses of th…
Environmental policy integration in the EU’s common agricultural policy
n Contains fulltext :\n 176461pub.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
The advantage of paradigmatic contestation in shaping and selling public policies
While contestation between competing policy paradigms is usually considered to hamper the policy-making process, this article develops an argument explaining how paradigmatic contestation can also help policymakers obtain their preferred policies. Based on a typology of three paradigm situations – paradigm dominance, paradigmatic contestation and paradigm mixes – this article introduces three different types of strategies (paradigm stretching, ba…
Reap what you sow
Government agencies responsible for policy implementation have expertise on policy practicability, efficiency and effectiveness, and knowledge which is provided to policymakers as feedback. However, we know very little about the feedback dynamics in which implementing agencies provide different types of feedback with the intention that it is used by policymakers, and the strategic decisions underlying these dynamics. This article connects the lit…
Monitoring and evaluating the CAP
n Contains fulltext :\n 284715.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Open Access)\n
In Vain or Virtue? Explaining Pesticide Reduction Ambitions in the EU Common Agricultural Policy National Strategic Plans
The development of national strategic plans (NSPs) under the EU's common agricultural policy (CAP) involves considerable coordination between Member States and the (European) Commission. In this process, the Commission provides recommendations to each Member State before they submit their draft NSPs and observations at a later stage before Member States submit their final NSP. The Commission's assessment is based on the NSPs' contribution to the …
Political science (11 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (10 works) · Economics (8 works) · Law (8 works) · International trade (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · European union (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Negotiation (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)