BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 15.1//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20251102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Eastern Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20250301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Eastern Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION: \;Farm Lobbies and the\nGovernment: A Comparative Assessme nt of the EU and the US This talk offers a\ncomparative approach to govern ment-interest group relations in different\npolities. The farm lobby group s have been taken as the unit of analysis both in\nthe European Union (EU) and the United States (US). The talk will shed light on\nthe meanings of the actual government-interest group relationships based on\nexisting lite rature. First\, theoretical tools and the pieces of literature on\ngovernm ent and interest group relations will be outlined. The old and new\nconcep tual and theoretical approaches will be reviewed briefly. Second\, recent\ nhistorical developments in the EU and the US will be explained in terms o f the\ndevelopment (reforms) of agricultural policies\, respectively. The roles of the\ngovernment-interest group relations will be put special emph asis on in shaping\n(reforming) the farm policies in both of the polities. The aim of this section\nis to explain which of the theoretical and conce ptual tools best describe their\nrelations in both of the political units. The following questions will be\nasked: Have there been corporatist relat ions in US farm policy-making? Or\, why\nhas the EU’s agricultural policy- making been dominantly characterized as\ncorporatist\, while the case was different in the US? Third\, the factors that\nchanged the existing patter ns of interest intermediation will be investigated.\nTo that end\, forces of globalization\, the effects of international trade\nagreements and\, th e changes of the constellations in policy networks will be\ngiven special emphasis. Pizza lunch will be served.  \; DTEND:20110211T190000Z DTSTAMP:20260511T201435Z DTSTART:20110211T170000Z LOCATION: SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:MERC Presents: Ahmet Arabaci UID:RFCALITEM639141128752201525 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html: \;Farm Lobbies and the\nGovernment: A Com parative Assessment of the EU and the US This talk offers a\ncomparative a pproach to government-interest group relations in different\npolities. The farm lobby groups have been taken as the unit of analysis both in\nthe Eu ropean Union (EU) and the United States (US). The talk will shed light on\ nthe meanings of the actual government-interest group relationships based on\nexisting literature. First\, theoretical tools and the pieces of liter ature on\ngovernment and interest group relations will be outlined. The ol d and new\nconceptual and theoretical approaches will be reviewed briefly. Second\, recent\nhistorical developments in the EU and the US will be exp lained in terms of the\ndevelopment (reforms) of agricultural policies\, r espectively. The roles of the\ngovernment-interest group relations will be put special emphasis on in shaping\n(reforming) the farm policies in both of the polities. The aim of this section\nis to explain which of the theo retical and conceptual tools best describe their\nrelations in both of the political units. The following questions will be\nasked: Have there been corporatist relations in US farm policy-making? Or\, why\nhas the EU’s agr icultural policy-making been dominantly characterized as\ncorporatist\, wh ile the case was different in the US? Third\, the factors that\nchanged th e existing patterns of interest intermediation will be investigated.\nTo t hat end\, forces of globalization\, the effects of international trade\nag reements and\, the changes of the constellations in policy networks will b e\ngiven special emphasis. Pizza lunch will be served.  \; END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR