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agrarian political economy
agricultural
Agricultural Cooperative Organisations
Agricultural Cooperatives
agricultural interest groups
Agricultural Mutual Aid
Agricultural Policy Activities
Agricultural Policy Issues
Agricultural Trade Liberalisation
Author_Aurelia George Mulgan
Category=JP
cooperative
demography
Diet Members
Diet Politicians
electoral mobilisation
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farm
Farm Households
farm sector lobbying
Farm Vote
FC System
Gaikaku Dantai
household
Japanese agricultural policy influence
Land Improvement Districts
LDP Politician
ldp's
Local Agricultural Cooperatives
Norin Zoku
performance
political
Political Leagues
Pr Ic
prefectural
Prefectural Constituencies
Prefectural Federation
Producer Rice Price
Rice Market Opening
Rice Price
rural policy analysis
rural-urban policy divide
Shinto Sakigake
Single Member District
voters
Product details
- ISBN 9780415223461
- Weight: 1800g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 20 Jan 2000
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Aurelia George Mulgan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of New South Wales, and an internationally renowned authority in this field of Japanese politics and the Japanese political system. She has co-edited a number of books including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection, Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan, Australian Agriculture and Newly Industrialising Asia
