CAP ? pengaslukande monster eller effektiv jordbrukspolitik EU:s gemensamma jordbrukspolitik sedd ur tre olika teoretiska perspektiv

The Common Agricultural Policy has been a burning topic for debate for several decades. According to the CAP:s opponents it's effects include pollution, market distortions and not least a huge expense for the European union. In this study we seek to explain why the CAP has remained almost unreformed since it's constitution in the 1950:s. The means by which we do so is a case study where we analyze the CAP by using three different theories; liberal inter-governmentalism, realistic trade theory and new institutionalism. In the final chapter we conclude that the theories complement each other. New institutionalism explains the rigidity of the CAP. The liberal perspective explains the origin and the logic behind the policy whereas the realistic point of view puts the policy in the light of an international economic theory and recognizes national policy makers roll in the inflexibility of the CAP