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A short history of Dutch forest policy: The 'de-institutionalisation' of a policy arrangement

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  • Veenman, Sietske
  • Liefferink, Duncan
  • Arts, Bas

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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.

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  • Veenman, Sietske & Liefferink, Duncan & Arts, Bas, 2009. "A short history of Dutch forest policy: The 'de-institutionalisation' of a policy arrangement," Forest Policy and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 11(3), pages 202-208, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:forpol:v:11:y:2009:i:3:p:202-208
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