<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>By now a preferred EU instrument aimed at stirring rural development, LEADER initially constituted an alleged departure from the top-down productivist agenda of the CAP towards locally-led development. The exogenous-endogenous explanatory model legitimized the adoption of economistic assumptions into EU rural development policy. As the CAP policy genealogy conveys, agricultural policies occurred at the intersection of internal and external factors, whereas the endogenous framework evicts structural explanations for territorial marginalization. A case study from North-western Romania provides details on the implementation of the endogenous agenda from the perspective of public actors. Rather than inducing an alleged alternative development model, LEADER acts as adjuvant to other policies and, overall, as a pedagogical exercise in uneven development.</p></abstract>

By now a preferred EU instrument aimed at stirring rural development, LEADER initially constituted an alleged departure from the top-down productivist agenda of the CAP towards locally-led development. The exogenous-endogenous explanatory model legitimized the adoption of economistic assumptions into EU rural development policy. As the CAP policy genealogy conveys, agricultural policies occurred at the intersection of internal and external factors, whereas the endogenous framework evicts structural explanations for territorial marginalization. A case study from North-western Romania provides details on the implementation of the endogenous agenda from the perspective of public actors. Rather than inducing an alleged alternative development model, LEADER acts as adjuvant to other policies and, overall, as a pedagogical exercise in uneven development.

A Knife to a Gunfight: Endogenous Development Through Leader as Contradictory Policy Prescription

Studia Universitatis Babes-Bolyai Sociologia

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By now a preferred EU instrument aimed at stirring rural development, LEADER initially constituted an alleged departure from the top-down productivist agenda...

A Knife to a Gunfight: Endogenous Development Through Leader as Contradictory Policy Prescription

Published Online: Aug 17, 2020

Page range: 43 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2020-0002

Keywords
Common Agricultural Policy, LEADER, rural development, exogenous-endogenous debate

© 2020 George Iulian Zamfir, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

A Knife to a Gunfight: Endogenous Development Through Leader as Contradictory Policy Prescription

Published Online: Aug 17, 2020

Page range: 43 - 68

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/subbs-2020-0002

KeywordsCommon Agricultural Policy, LEADER, rural development, exogenous-endogenous debate

© 2020 George Iulian Zamfir, published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Keywords
Common Agricultural Policy, LEADER, rural development, exogenous-endogenous debate