Common Agricultural Policy

Visiting Professor at Warwick University. In 2010 he was presented with the Diamond Jubilee Lifetime Achievement award of the Political Studies Association of the UK at their Awards Ceremony. He was elected an Academician of the Academy of Social Sciences in 2011.

'Grant has written one of the best books ever on the CAP, and really on EU policy making more generally.' - John Peterson, Political Studies '[D]emonstrates the author's rich knowledge of commodity details and historical evidence, without losing the thread of political economic analysis...[U]p-to-date...and...readable...it can be fully recommended.' - Andreas Bodenstedt, Sociologia Ruralis

• PrefaceIntroductionThe Context of European AgricultureThe Structure of European Agriculture and Food ProcessingThe Development of the Common Agricultural Policy System Failures: the Agrimonetary System and the Fraud ProblemButter Mountains, Wine Lakes and Beef War: the Commodity RegimesDecision Making and the CAPThe Reform Imperative: Eastern Enlargement, Trade and the EnvironmentThe Possibility of Radical Reform?References.