Japan's Agricultural Policy Regime (Nissan Institute/Routledge Japanese Studies) - Hardcover

Mulgan, Aurelia George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415366666 ISBN 13: 9780415366663

Publisher: Routledge, 2005

Synopsis

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.

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University of New South Wales, Australia

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0415366666
• ISBN 13: 9780415366663
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256