Surprises in European science policy

Surprises in European science policy.

I recently participated in a daring experiment—I was a member of the selection committee for the European Commission’s functional genomics projects under the 5th Framework Programme. And my experience of this experiment was quite surprising for two reasons. The first was that the EC has obviously listened to scientists’ opinions and the second was that they have shown the ability to change the ...

Commodity Price Responses to Monetary Policy Surprises

Commodity prices are important both as a source of shocks and for the propagation of shocks originating elsewhere in the economy. Many vector autoregression (VAR) studies estimate a gradual response of commodity prices to monetary policy shocks. Exploiting information in high-frequency financial market data, and using the methods of Rigobon and Sack (2004) I find that a 10 basis point surprise ...

Cultural Surprises as Sources of Sudden, Big Policy Change

Brendon Swedlow PS: Political Science & Politics / Volume 44 / Issue 04 / October 2011, pp 736 ­ 739 DOI: 10.1017/S1049096511001375, Published online: 18 October 2011 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1049096511001375 How to cite this article: Brendon Swedlow (2011). Cultural Surprises as Sources of Sudden, Big Policy Change. PS: Political Science & Politics,44, pp 7...

Fisheries science and sustainability in international policy: a study of failure in the European Union’s Common Fisheries Policy

Within the European Union, scientific fisheries research and advice is passed down a chain of central European institutions before being incorporated into policy. However, advice is often poorly or only partially implemented and the system has largely failed to achieve sustainable fisheries management. This paper aims to explain why, by examining the use of fisheries science within the Common F...

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