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The Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies by Johan Swinnen (Englis
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10
1349698946
ISBN-13
9781349698943
eBay Product ID (ePID)
25038823552
Product Key Features
Book Title
Political Economy of Agricultural and Food Policies
Number of Pages
Xix, 254 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy (See Also Social Science / Agriculture & Food), Industries / General, International Relations / Trade & Tariffs, Agriculture & Food (See Also Political Science / Public Policy / Agriculture & Food Policy), Public Policy / Economic Policy
Publication Year
2019
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics
Book Series
Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Weight
16 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.8 in
Additional Product Features
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Number of Volumes
1 vol.
Dewey Decimal
338.18
Table Of Content
1. Introduction.- 2. Political Coalitions in Agricultural and Food Policies.- 3. Factors Influencing Policy Choices.- 4. The Development Paradox.- 5. Anti-trade Bias and the Political Economy of Instrument Choice.- 6. Development Paradox and Anti-trade Bias Revisited?.- 7. Policy Reforms in History: Europe, the United States, and China.- 8. Price Volatility.- 9. Crises and Development Policies.- 10. Food Standards.- 11. Public Investment in Agricultural Research.- 12. Land and Institutional Reforms.- 13. Policy Interactions.
Synopsis
The political economy of agricultural and food policy is timely, not just from a policy perspective, but also from the perspective of developments in the literature. Looking back, the 1980s and first half of the 1990s were a very active period in the field of political economy of agricultural protection and policy distortions. This research was triggered by a combination of factors. First and foremost, there was the puzzling question: why was agriculture supported in rich countries and taxed in poor countries? At the same time studies were fueled by emerging general theories of 'new political economy', coming out of the University of Chicago (with the important contributions of Stigler, Peltzman and Becker), the public choice school of Buchanan and Tullock, and the influential work of Downs and Olson. A third factor was the arrival of new data, in particular the dataset assembled as part of the World Bank study organized by Krueger, Schiff and Valdes (1991). The combination of an intriguing question, a rich set of new general theories to apply, and fascinating data induced a rich and vast literature on the political economy of agricultural trade and distortions in the 1980s and the first part of the 1990s. Research interest in the political economy of agricultural policies was waning in the second part of the 1990s and research activities in this field became less intensive. However, similar conditions that sparked an intense interest in the political economy of agricultural policies in the 1980s, and yielded a rich harvest of interesting findings, were once again present in the past years. First, there are new and innovative datasets available, in particular for institutional and political variables, and on agricultural and food policies. Second, there have been important new developments concerning political economy in other parts of the economics profession which have potentially important implications for the political economy of agricultural policy distortions. Third, there are also important new questions to be addressed. How have important institutional and political reforms in the 1980s and the 1990s affected agricultural policy distortions? How have changes in international organizations and international trade agreements affected agricultural policy distortions? (Examples of these developments over the past decade include effects of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture (URAA), establishment of the WTO, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), EU enlargement, etc.) How have policies (and goverments) responded to major changes in global agricultural markets, and to new global challenges such as climate change, growing bio-energy markets and food price spikes? All this has resulted in a series of new theoretical and empirical research on the political economy of agricultural and food policies. II. Objective and Organization of the Book The objective of this book is to integrate key insights of both the older and the new literature and provide a comprehensive review (and to end by pointing out remaining gaps in our knowledge and promising areas for further research). The book is planned to have two major parts. The first part will review key insights from the theoretical and empirical literature on factors that affect agricultural and food policy (and the political economy mechanisms behind them). This includes an analysis of the role of inequality and structural changes in the economy, the role of political institutions and ideology, the impact of crises, and the political economy of information and the role of the mass media. The second part will use these insights and use them to provide explanations for specific empirical observations. This includes addressing why agricultural protection increased (in a non-linear fashion) in most of the 20th century, why there has been a turnaround in the past 30 years and subsidization in rich countries has declined at the same time when agricultural taxation of poor, Winner of the European Association of Agricultural Economists Book Award Food and agriculture have been subject to heavy-handed government interventions throughout much of history and across the globe, both in developing and in developed countries. Today, more than half a trillion US dollars are spent by some governments to support farmers, while other governments impose regulations and taxes that hurt farmers. Some policies, such as price regulations and tariffs, distribute income but reduce total welfare by introducing economic distortions. Other policies, such as public investments in research, food standards, or land reforms, may increase total welfare, but these policies come also with distributional effects. These distributional effects influence the preferences of interest groups and in turn influence policy decisions. Political considerations are therefore crucial to understand how agricultural and food policies are determined, to identify the constraints within which welfare-enhancing reforms are possible (or not), and finally to understand how coalitions can be created to stimulate growth and reduce poverty.
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HD28-70
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