GMOs Regulation: Policy Models and Factors of Its Establishment

Student: Sultanbekova Lola

Supervisor: Anna Tarasenko

Faculty: Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences

Educational Programme: Political Science (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2017

The work is devoted to the analysis of factors determining certain model of GMO policy. Models are the combination of research, production, import and export of GM-products in different proportions. The theoretical frame of the work is the diffusion theory formulated by J. Walker, moreover there is a literature review on factors of innovations diffusion. The analysis of 69 cases is performed by using the decision making tree. The variables include internal and external, political and economic factors. The main finding of the work is that economic and geographic factors determine the model of GMO policy to be implemented in the state.

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