Comparing in Administrative Adaptation to CAP in Denmark-Greece

The two preceding chapters present an analysis of the domestic factors and their changes in Denmark and Greece since the two countries joined the EU. Based on this analysis, in this chapter I compare systematically the three domestic factors and their characteristics – the organisation of the sector (the micro level), the domestic politics and network governance (macro level) – in the two countries examined in this study. This comparison generates original insights and well-supported explanations on how domestic factors affect administrative choices, patterns, practices and style differently in the two examined countries. The differences in these factors have led to variation in adaptation to CAP decisions as addressed in the main research question in this book: How do the domestic factors affect variation in the member states’ administrative adaptation to European agricultural policies and why? Specifically, the analysis shows that Denmark presents a high degree of administrative ‘absorption’, whereas Greece displays ‘inertia’ even though agricultural policy in both countries has followed the CAP rules since they joined the EU.