Carsten Daugbjerg

Carsten Daugbjerg

Honorary Professor
Resources, Environment and Development

Carsten Daugbjerg is an Honorary Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy. He received his PhD in Political Science from the Aarhus University, Denmark. Previously he has held academic appointments at Aarhus University and University of Copenhagen. From 2009 to 2011 he was a visiting fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences, the ANU. His field of research is comparative public policy, specialising in agricultural policy reform, trade negotiations in the WTO, public and private food standards in global trade, government interest group relations and environmental policy.

He has published widely on these issues in leading international journals, has had four books published, including Ideas, Institutions and Trade: The WTO and the Curious Role of EU Farm Policy in Trade Liberalization (Oxford University Press, 2009), and has contributed with chapters to numerous edited books. A substantial part of this research applies an inter-disciplinary approach.

He is a former Major in the Danish Royal Life Guards Regiment and served actively as a reserve officer in the Danish Army for seventeen years in parallel to his academic career. Until taking up his post at the ANU in 2013 he was also a part-time farmer in Denmark, producing organic beef and wheat.

Current projects

  • The Danish Council for Strategic Research grant: BIOsoc – International and national governance of bioenergy: Trade, environment and integration of energy systems.’
  • Theories of comparative public policy, in particular policy network and governance theories, historical institutionalism, ideational theory, policy instrument and policy design theory.
  • Agricultural policy reform processes and outcomes.
  • Trade negotiations in the WTO with a particular focus on the agricultural trade negotiations.
  • The relationship between WTO food trade regime and private food standard schemes.
  • Government interest group relations.
  • Environmental policy, focusing in particular on the politics of green taxation, agri-environmental regulation, comparative organic food policies and biofuels policy.

Research Interest

  • Theories of comparative public policy, in particular policy network and governance theories, historical institutionalism, ideational theory, policy instrument and policy design theory.
  • Agricultural policy reform processes and outcomes.
  • Trade negotiations in the WTO with a particular focus on the agricultural trade negotiations.
  • The relationship between WTO food trade regime and private food standard schemes.
  • Government interest group relations.
  • Environmental policy, focusing in particular on the politics of green taxation, agri-environmental regulation, comparative organic food policies and biofuels policy.

Publications

  • Daugbjerg, Carsten and Alan Swinbank (2012), ‘An Introduction to the “New” Politics of Agriculture and Food’, introductory article for special issue on Policy analysis and the ‘new’ politics of food and agriculture, Policy and Society. vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 259-270.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten and Linda Botterill (2012), ‘Ethical food standard schemes and global trade: Paralleling the WTO?, Policy and Society vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 307-317.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten, Jan Holm Ingemann and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov (2012)’Økologisk landbrugspolitik – komparative erfaringer og teoretiske implikationer’, Landøkonomisk Tidsskrift, vol. 198, no 2, pp. 139-158 [Danish Journal of Rural Economy].
  • Fawcett Paul and Carsten Daugbjerg (2012), ‘Explaining Governance Outcomes: Epistemology, Network Governance and the Policy Network Analysis School’, Political Studies Review, vol. 10, issue 2, pp. 195-207.
  • Daugbjerg Carsten and Kim Mannemar Sønderskov (2012), ’Environmental Policy Performance Revisited: Designing Effective Policies for Green Markets’, Political Studies, vol. 60, issue 2, pp. 399-418.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten (2012),’The World Trade Organization and Organic Food Trade: Potential for Restricting Protectionism?’ Organic Agriculture, vol. 2, no. 1, pp. 55-66.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten (2012), ‘Process Sequencing’, in Eduardo Araral, Scott Fritzen, Michael Howlett, M. Ramesh, and Xun Wu (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Public Policy, London: Routledge, pp. 473-483.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten, (2012), ‘Globalization and Internal Policy Dynamics in the Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy’ in Jeremy Richardson (ed.) Constructing a policy-making state? Policy dynamics in the EU, Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 88-103.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten, (2012), ‘EU’s landbrugspolitik ved et vadested’, in Peder Andersen, Ingrid Henriksen, Jørn Henrik Petersen and Henrik Zobbe (eds.), Hvordan ser verden ud? 73 bidrag om økonomi, institutioner og værdier, Copenhagen: Jurist- og Økonomforbundets Forlag, pp. 86-92.
  • Botterill, Linda and Carsten Daugbjerg (2012), ‘Private Food Standards in International Trade’, The New Zealand Law Journal, March 2012, pp. 44-46.
  • Sønderskov, Kim Mannemar and Carsten Daugbjerg (2011), ‘The State and Consumer Confidence in Eco-Labeling: Organic Labeling in Denmark, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States’, Agriculture and Human Values, vol. 28, no. 4, pp. 507-517.
  • Halpin, Darren, Carsten Daugbjerg and Yonatan Schvartzman (2011), ‘Interest Group Capacities and Infant Industry Development: State-sponsored Growth in Organic Farming’, International Political Science Review, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 147-166.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten, Richard Tranter, Caroline Hattam and Garth Holloway (2011) ‘Modelling the Impacts of Policy on Entry into Organic Farming: Evidence from Danish-UK Comparisons, 1989-2007.’ Land Use Policy, vol. 28. no. 2., pp. 413-22.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten and Gert Tinggaard Svendsen (2011) ‘Government intervention in green industries: Lessons from the wind turbine industry and the organic food industry in Denmark’, Environment, Development and Sustainability, vol 13, no. 2, pp. 293-307
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten and Alan Swinbank (2011), ‘The Budget and the WTO: Driving forces behind the ‘Health Check’, in A. Sorrentino, R. Henke and S. Severini (eds.), The Common Agricultural Policy after the Fischler Reform: National Implementations, Impact Assessment and the Agenda for Future Reform, Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 67-77.
  • Daugbjerg, Carsten and Alan Swinbank (2011), ‘Explaining the “Health Check” of the Common Agricultural Policy: budgetary politics, globalisation and paradigm change revisited’, Policy Studies, vol. 32, no. 2, pp. 127-41.
  • Botterill, Linda and Carsten Daugbjerg (2011), ‘Engaging with Private Sector Standards: A case study of GLOBALG.A.P’, Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 65, no. 4, pp. 488-504.

Contact Email

carsten.daugbjerg@anu.edu.au