The Rise of the Agricultural Welfare State : : Institutions and Interest Group Power in the United States, France, and Japan / / Adam D. Sheingate.

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• VerfasserIn: Sheingate, Adam D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Princeton Studies in American Politics: Historical, International, and Comparative Perspectives ; 82
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (296 p.) :; 10 tables. 5 illus.

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 struggle...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Illustrations
• Preface
• Introduction
• CHAPTER 1. History, Policy, and Institutions
• CHAPTER 2. Foundations of the Agricultural Welfare State
• CHAPTER 3. The Challenge of Market Intervention
• CHAPTER 4. The Postwar Development of the Agricultural Welfare State
• CHAPTER 5. The Politics of Agricultural Retrenchment
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index