Cornell Univ Pr Books
Books editi da Cornell Univ Pr con argomento Agriculture And State
The Power Of Everyday Politics
Kerkvliet Benedict J.
edizioni Cornell Univ Pr collana Cornell Univ Pr (Hardcover) , 2005
Ordinary people's everyday political behavior can have a huge impact on national policy: that is the central conclusion of this book on Vietnam. In telling the story of collectivized agriculture in that country, Benedict J. Tria Kerkvliet uncovers a history of local resistance to national policy and gives a voice to...
Farmers on Welfare
Knudsen Ann-christina L.
edizioni Cornell Univ Pr collana (Hardcover) , 2009
In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional answer focuses on the negotiations among the member states of the...