Author: Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134211856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134211856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134211856
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.
Japanese Agriculture Under Siege
Author: Yujiro Hayami
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349192279
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349192279
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 159
Book Description
Japanese Agricultural Policies
Author: Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Publisher: Australian Government Publishing Service
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
Ideas about Agriculture in the Political Economy of Japan
Author: James M. Brady
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527565378
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A major paradox in the political economy of Japan is why an enduring majority of citizens, as voters, consumers, and taxpayers, has explicitly supported or implicitly consented to a policy regime of agricultural protection that reduces material welfare and limits consumer choice. This book goes beyond standard political economy approaches that focus on self-interest pursuit by policy actors to contend that ideational factors are an important explanatory variable shaping the policy preferences of individuals towards agriculture and agricultural policy in Japan. The book traces the historical origins of ideas about agriculture, particularly those associated with the nōhonshugi tradition, and offers an original taxonomy classifying the development of agrarian thought from the Tokugawa era until the 1930s. It then analyses postwar media portrayals of agriculture in public policy debates around the 1961 and 1999 agricultural ‘basic laws’, charting the evolution of both economic and non-economic ideas in those periods. Finally, it investigates the predominant ideas held about agriculture by individuals today, as evidenced through public opinion survey data, and demonstrates that concerns about health and food safety, food self-sufficiency, and the environment strongly outweigh economic welfare considerations. The study concludes by examining developments in agricultural policy under the Abe administration in the context of these predominant ideas, and considers how those ideas could be operationalised in agricultural policy responses to major crises including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527565378
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 197
Book Description
A major paradox in the political economy of Japan is why an enduring majority of citizens, as voters, consumers, and taxpayers, has explicitly supported or implicitly consented to a policy regime of agricultural protection that reduces material welfare and limits consumer choice. This book goes beyond standard political economy approaches that focus on self-interest pursuit by policy actors to contend that ideational factors are an important explanatory variable shaping the policy preferences of individuals towards agriculture and agricultural policy in Japan. The book traces the historical origins of ideas about agriculture, particularly those associated with the nōhonshugi tradition, and offers an original taxonomy classifying the development of agrarian thought from the Tokugawa era until the 1930s. It then analyses postwar media portrayals of agriculture in public policy debates around the 1961 and 1999 agricultural ‘basic laws’, charting the evolution of both economic and non-economic ideas in those periods. Finally, it investigates the predominant ideas held about agriculture by individuals today, as evidenced through public opinion survey data, and demonstrates that concerns about health and food safety, food self-sufficiency, and the environment strongly outweigh economic welfare considerations. The study concludes by examining developments in agricultural policy under the Abe administration in the context of these predominant ideas, and considers how those ideas could be operationalised in agricultural policy responses to major crises including the coronavirus pandemic and climate change.
Rice and Agricultural Policies in Japan
Author: Nicole L. Freiner
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319914308
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book chronicles Japan’s rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditional lifestyle that is vital to Japan’s notion of national identity. The project covers recent agricultural policies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its potential consequences on Japan’s food sovereignty and documents the effect of these policies on rice farmers. This volume is ideal for those interested in Japan’s agricultural policies and rural and traditional Japanese lifestyle.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319914308
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
This book chronicles Japan’s rice farmers who live in mainly rural areas in the west and south of Japan through original interviews conducted in Japanese. It argues that current agricultural policy as well as the tightening relationship between the US and Japan is a death sentence for a traditional lifestyle that is vital to Japan’s notion of national identity. The project covers recent agricultural policies, including the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement and its potential consequences on Japan’s food sovereignty and documents the effect of these policies on rice farmers. This volume is ideal for those interested in Japan’s agricultural policies and rural and traditional Japanese lifestyle.
The Politics of Agriculture in Japan
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134594402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134594402
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
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.
The Role of Foreign Pressure (gaiatsu) in Japan's Agricultural Trade Liberalisation
Author: Aurelia George Mulgan
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
Harvesting State Support
Author: Hanno Jentzsch
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508549
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487508549
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Harvesting State Support provides an analytical focus on the local implementation and interpretation of the agricultural reform process in Japan.
Japan's Agricultural Policy in International Perspective
Author: Kym Anderson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Recent Changes in Japanese Agricultural Policies and Some Domestic and International Effects
Author: P. C. Riethmuller
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture and state
Languages : en
Pages : 42
Book Description