The Politics of Liberalization of the Japanese Agricultural Market
Author : Elpidio R. Sta. Romana
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
Author : Elpidio R. Sta. Romana
Publisher :
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 35,38 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
Author : Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher :
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 11,64 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
Author : Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher :
Page : 70 pages
File Size : 36,63 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Agriculture and state
ISBN :
Author : Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 46,40 MB
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1134211856
Written by the world’s leading expert in the field, this book examines the evolution of Japanese agricultural policy in the post-war period, focusing particularly from the 1970s onwards when both domestic and external pressures for reform began to intensify. The author explains how the MAFF has safeguarded their institutional capacity to intervene by accommodating both public interest in agricultural policy reform alongside the interests of government in maintaining agricultural support and protection. The book provides a major reinterpretation of agricultural policy, examining how the MAFF’s role as an ‘intervention maximiser’ has been redefined in the face of continued bureaucratic involvement. Making available in English for the first time Japanese policy changes in the post-war period, the book will appeal to political economy specialists and political scientists, and those with an interest in Japanese politics and bureaucratic institutions.
Author : Hiroaki Kobayashi
Publisher : Regional Co-Ordination
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 28,33 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Food industry and trade
ISBN :
Author : Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 856 pages
File Size : 14,47 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415223466
Agriculture is one of the most politically powerful sectors in Japanese national politics. This book provides the first comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. This definitive text analyses the organisational and electoral bais of farmers' political power, including the role of agricultural interest groups, the mobilisation of the farm vote and links between farmers and politicians in the Diet. Agrarian power has helped to produce the distinctly pro-rural, anti-urban bias of postwar Japanese governments, resulting in a general neglect of urban consumer interests and sustained opposition to market opening for farm products. This book represents a major study of Japanese agricultural organisations in their multifarious roles as interest groups, agents of agricultural administration, electoral resource providers and mammouth business groups. It describes the policy issues that engage farmers' concerns and identifies the agricultural commodities that carry the greatest political significance.
Author : Yoshihiro Sasaki
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 29,13 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Japan
ISBN :
Author : Christina L. Davis
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2011-10-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400841399
This detailed account of the politics of opening agricultural markets explains how the institutional context of international negotiations alters the balance of interests at the domestic level to favor trade liberalization despite opposition from powerful farm groups. Historically, agriculture stands out as a sector in which countries stubbornly defend domestic programs, and agricultural issues have been the most frequent source of trade disputes in the postwar trading system. While much protection remains, agricultural trade negotiations have resulted in substantial concessions as well as negotiation collapses. Food Fights over Free Trade shows that the liberalization that has occurred has been due to the role of international institutions. Christina Davis examines the past thirty years of U.S. agricultural trade negotiations with Japan and Europe based on statistical analysis of an original dataset, case studies, and in-depth interviews with over one hundred negotiators and politicians. She shows how the use of issue linkage and international law in the negotiation structure transforms narrow interest group politics into a more broad-based decision process that considers the larger stakes of the negotiation. Even when U.S. threats and the spiraling budget costs of agricultural protection have failed to bring policy change, the agenda, rules, and procedures of trade negotiations have often provided the necessary leverage to open Japanese and European markets. This book represents a major contribution to understanding the negotiation process, agricultural politics, and the impact of international institutions on domestic politics.
Author : Patricia L. Maclachlan
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 25,93 MB
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1501762141
Japan Agricultural Cooperatives (JA), a nationwide network of farm cooperatives, is under increasing pressure to expand farmer incomes by adapting coop strategies to changing market incentives. Some coops have adapted more successfully than others. In Betting on the Farm, Patricia L. Maclachlan and Kay Shimizu attribute these differences to three sets of local variables: resource endowments and product-specific market conditions, coop leadership, and the organization of farmer-members behind new coop strategies. Using in-depth case studies and profiles of different types of farmers, Betting on the Farm also explores the evolution of the formal and informal institutional foundations of postwar agriculture; the electoral sources of JA's influence; the interactive effects of economic liberalization and demographic pressures (an aging farm population and acute shortage of farm successors) on the propensity for change within the farm sector; and the diversification of Japan's traditional farm households and the implications for farmer ties with JA.
Author : Albrecht Rothacher
Publisher :
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 12,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This book describes the profound structural change in Japan's agriculture from its politically marginalized, economically fragmented, traditional labour-intensive postwar mode of production to its current dual modern shape of a highly capitalized, politically organized and protected sector.