Dc. Payne, Policy-making in nested institutions: Explaining the conservation failure of the EU's common fisheries policy, J COM MKT S, 38(2), 2000, pp. 303-324
The widely recognized conservation failure of the Common Fisheries Policy (
CFP) is largely due to the nested institutional context in which fishermen'
s issues are negotiated, Divergent Member State interests regarding the com
petence of Community institutions have led to the selection and maintenance
of ineffective policies, I propose a three-level game to draw out the impl
ications of policy-making within nested institutions. To substantiate this
explanation, I show how the guiding principles of the CFP have created and
heightened Prisoner's Dilemma game incentives among both Member States and
fishermen, yet have been retained due to divergent Member State interests.