 A short history of Dutch forest policy: The 'de-institutionalisation' of a policy arrangementSietske Veenman, Duncan Liefferink and Bas Arts Forest Policy and Economics, 2009, vol. 11, issue 3, 202-208 Abstract: Over the past thirty years, forest policy in the Netherlands has almost entirely been integrated into nature policy. This process of 'de-institutionalisation' is surprising in view of widely accepted theories of institutional stability and 'path dependency'. The process is investigated in this paper along the four dimensions of the policy arrangement approach: discourse, power, rules and actors. It is argued that a discursive shift, moving the focus from production forest to 'forest as part of nature' and fuelled by a number of underlying factors, lies at the heart of the process. In concordance with this shift, advocates of timber autarky lost power in favour of 'nature advocates'. A more diverse set of actors became involved in forest policy, also reflecting a more general trend in Dutch politics towards greater openness and the erosion of neo-corporatist rules. Thus, changes in all four dimensions of the policy arrangement worked into one direction. This may explain the unusually quick and radical 'de-institutionalisation' of Dutch forest policy. Keywords: Policy; arrangement; approach; (De-)institutionalisation; Dutch; forest; policy; Discursive; shift (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:forpol:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:202-208 Access Statistics for this article Forest Policy and Economics is currently edited by M. Krott More articles in Forest Policy and Economics from Elsevier |
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