This book examines the decade from 2004 to 2013 during which people in China witnessed both a skyrocketing number of food safety crises, and aggregating regulatory initiatives attempting to control these crises. Multiple cycles of crisis regulatory efforts indicated the systemic failure of this food safety regime. The book explains this failure in the social foundations for the regulatory governance of food safety. It locates the proximate causes in the regulatory segmentation, which is supported by the differential impacts of the food regulatory regime on various consumer groups. The approach of regulatory segmentation does not only explain the failure of the food safety regime by digging out its social foundation, but is also crucial to the understanding of the regulatory state in China.
Introduction.- Chapter 1. From Regulation to Systemic Regulatory Failure.- Chapter 2. Towards a Conceptual Framework for Regulatory Regime and Methods.- Chapter 3. Development of the Regulatory Regime of Food Safety in China.- Chapter 4. Food Safety Crises in China.- Chapter 5. Segmented Food Safety Standard-Setting.- Chapter 6. Food Safety Information Communication or Miscommunication.- Chapter 7. Understanding the Failure of Food Safety Regulatory Implementation.- Conclusion.
Guanqi Zhou is Lecturer at Yunnan University, Peoples Republic of China. She won the Australian Prime Ministers Asia Endeavour Award in 2013, and is co-editor of The Sustainable Development of Agriculture in Chinas Plateau Regions (2015).
This is a path breaking and innovative book on regulatory governance of food safety in China. Going beyond explanations of institutional dysfunction it locates the source of regulatory failure in the social foundations of segmented governance of food safety. It fol3¦
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