TY - JOUR
T1 - Politicisation and Coalition Magnets in Policy Making: A Comparative Study of Food Sovereignty and Agricultural Reform in Nepal and Ecuador
AU - Sharma, Puspa
AU - Daugbjerg, Carsten
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - Politicisation can be a strategy in which reform advocates use new ideas with coalition magnet attributes to engage a broad range of actors in setting the agenda for policy reform. Comparing the cases of Ecuador and Nepal, the article shows that the generally appealing but ambiguous idea of food sovereignty is a coalition magnet. Through politicisation, agriculture reform advocates in the two countries used the idea to form coalitions of diverse groups supporting reform. But due to the idea's ambiguities, a coherent set of reform measures is lacking. This has impeded policy reforms in the two countries.
AB - Politicisation can be a strategy in which reform advocates use new ideas with coalition magnet attributes to engage a broad range of actors in setting the agenda for policy reform. Comparing the cases of Ecuador and Nepal, the article shows that the generally appealing but ambiguous idea of food sovereignty is a coalition magnet. Through politicisation, agriculture reform advocates in the two countries used the idea to form coalitions of diverse groups supporting reform. But due to the idea's ambiguities, a coherent set of reform measures is lacking. This has impeded policy reforms in the two countries.
U2 - 10.1080/13876988.2020.1760716
DO - 10.1080/13876988.2020.1760716
M3 - Article
SP - -
JO - Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
JF - Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
ER -