The Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China

Governance and Segmentation
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-84400-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 303 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 426 g

Reihe: Studies in the Political Economy of Public Policy

This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises. Multiple cycles of “crisis – regulatory efforts” indicated the systemic failure of this food safety regime. The book explains this failure in the “social foundations” for the regulatory governance of food safety. It locates the proximate causes in the regulatory segmentation, which is supported by the differential impacts of the food regulatory regime on various consumer groups. The approach of regulatory segmentation does not only explain the failure of the food safety regime by digging out its social foundation, but is also crucial to the understanding of the regulatory state in China.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zhou, Guanqi

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Lebensmittelsicherheit und -versorgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Chapter 1. From Regulation to Systemic Regulatory Failure.- Chapter 2. Towards a Conceptual Framework for Regulatory Regime and Methods.- Chapter 3. Development of the Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China.- Chapter 4. Food Safety Crises in China.- Chapter 5. Segmented Food Safety Standard-Setting.- Chapter 6. Food Safety Information Communication or Miscommunication.- Chapter 7. Understanding the Failure of Food Safety Regulatory Implementation.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Guanqi Zhou is Lecturer at Yunnan University, People’s Republic of China. She won the Australian Prime Minister’s Asia Endeavour Award in 2013, and is co-editor of The Sustainable Development of Agriculture in China’s Plateau Regions (2015).