Analysis: “Governance Reform and Public Acceptance of Regulatory Decision Making: the case of EU Pesticides Authorisations” by T. Kuhn, M. Weimer, D. van der Duin, and J. Zeitlin

Do governance reforms affect public acceptance of regulatory decisions, and if so how? A team of researchers from the University of Amsterdam Centre for European Studies (ACES) tackled this critical but under-studied question through a pair of linked survey experiments on public attitudes towards the reform of EU pesticides regulation among a representative sample of the adult population in six EU Member States (DE, FR, IT, NL, PL, SE; n=9000). First, we conducted a joint experiment to study whether and how the specific design of decision-making procedures impact public support for EU pesticide regulation. We asked respondents to rate and choose between randomly assigned policy packages, covering five dimensions of proposed reform of EU