COLEMAN, William D <br/><br/>
State power, transformative capacity and adapting to globalization :  an analysis of French agricultural policy, 1960-2000 

 -  April 2002 
<br/><br/> What states can and cannot do under conditions of globalization remains an important question in current studies of public policy. some stress that states are increasingly limited in the types of policies they can deploy, while others argue that states remain active and important players, but in different ways. This article argues that transformative capacity rooted in links between the state and societal actors will be crucial for determining what options are available to governments. This argument is address by examining the evolution of agricultural structural policy in France over the past forty years. Globalization, regional economic integration, as well as environmental and social issues posed new challenges for policy-makers in agriculture beginning in the early 1980's, forcing a reconstitution of state-society relations, first vertically and then horizontally, as a basis for transformative capacity. In the process, the state has shifted from a reliance on rather closed bipartite corporatist policy networks to more open multipartite corporatism. These reconstructed relations with the agri-food sector are now permitting the French state to pursue a new approach to agricultural structural policy that adjust to globalization on its ownterms 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Agricultura<br/>Política Agrícola<br/>Globalização<br/>Corporativismo<br/>Política Ambiental<br/>Neoliberalismo
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>França