The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State (eBook)

Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan

Adam D. Sheingate (Autor)

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2021
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2393-2 (ISBN)

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A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary struggles over farm subsidies. His considered conclusion is that American institutions have not given agricultural interest groups any particular advantages in the policy process, in part because opposing lobbies also enjoy access to policymakers. In fact, the high degree of conflict and pluralism maintained by American institutions made possible substantial retrenchment of the agricultural welfare state during the 1980s and 1990s. In Japan and France--two countries with markedly different institutional characters than the United States--powerful agricultural interests and a historically close relationship between farmers, bureaucrats, and politicians continue to preclude a roll-back of farm subsidies.This well-crafted study not only puts a new spin on agricultural policy, but also makes a strong case for the broader claim that the relatively decentralized American political system is actually less prone to capture and rule by subgovernments than the more centralized political systems found in France and Japan. Sheingate's historical, comparative approach also demonstrates, in a widely useful way, how past institutional developments shape current policies and options.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.6.2021
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives
• Zusatzinfo: 10 tables. 5 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Land- / Forstwirtschaft / Fischerei
• Schlagworte: activism • Advocacy group • Agrarianism • Agricultural Act (1961) • Agricultural Adjustment Act • Agricultural Adjustment Administration • Agricultural cooperative • Agricultural Economics • agricultural extension • Agricultural Policy • Agricultural subsidy • Agriculture • Agriculture (Chinese mythology) • Agriculture in the United States • Amendment • American Farm Bureau Federation • Amicale parlementaire agricole (APA) • Baumgartner, Frank • Brannan Plan • Budget • Budget Process • bureaucrat • Bureau of Agricultural Affairs (Japan) • Calvert, Charles • Chirac, Jacques • Commodity • Commodity Credit Corporation • commodity market • Common Agricultural Policy • Competitive advantage • Constitutionalism • cooperatives • Corporatism • Corps du génie rural • Cost–benefit analysis • decentralization • democratic party • Direct Payments • economic interventionism • Economic Policy • Economics • economist • Eisenhower, Dwight • Employment • entrepreneurial politics • Environmental politics • Farm Aid • farm crisis • Farmer • Farmers' Alliance • Farm income • Federal Agriculture Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 • Fertilizer • Fifth Republic • Food Control Law (1942) • Fourth Republic • Gambetta, Leon • Gilded Age politics • Government • government capacity • group conflict • health insurance • Hidden welfare state • implementation • Industrial Cooperative Law (1900) • Institution • insurance • Iron Triangle • Jacob Hacker • James Q. Wilson • Japan Socialist Party • Jiyuto • Jurisdiction • Kline, Allan • Kohl, Helmut • land-grant college system • Legislation • Legislative veto • Legislator • livestock • lobbying • log-rolling • majoritarian politics • Market Price • Martin Shefter • Ministry of Agriculture and Commerce • Mitterand, Françoise • Morrill Act (1862) • New Deal • obstacle • Offices agricoles • Olson, Mancur • overproduction • Party System • Payment • Peltzman, Sam • Pisani, Edgard • Policy • policy analysis • Policy Networks • political alliance • Political Economy • Political entrepreneur • political machine • Political organization • Political Party • Political Science • Politician • Politics • populist party • Price support • Production Control • Public Expenditure • Public Policy • Regime • Regulation • Regulatory Capture • retrenchment politics • Rice Control Law (1933) • rice production • Seiyukai Party • Separation of Powers • Service hydraulique • Soil Bank • state-owned enterprise • Subsidy • Supply (economics) • Tanguy-Prigent, Pierre • tariff • Tax • Tax break • Taxpayer • Technology • Theda Skocpol • The Origins of the Urban Crisis • Truman, David • United States Department of Agriculture • United States Secretary of Agriculture • Uruguay Round • victorian america • Voting • welfare • Welfare State • Wheat production • wine production • World War I • World War II • zoku, agricultural
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2393-5 / 1400823935
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2393-2 / 9781400823932