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Book SynopsisThis volume contains a series of essays reflecting on the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. It presents original and comparative analyses of agricultural regulation.
Table of ContentsChanging Regulatory Orders: The Analysis of the Economic Governanceof Agriculture (P. Lowe, et al.).
Agriculture and Corporatism in Scandinavia (F. Just).
Challenging the Productivist Paradigm: Organic Farming and thePolitics of Agricultural Change (T. Clunies-Ross & G.Cox).
Technological Change in the Regulation of Agriculture (E.Hawkins).
Retailing, the Food System and the Regulatory State (A. Flynn, etal.).
Agricultural Deregulation: The Case of New Zealand (P. Cloke &R. Le Heron).
From State Control to a Managed or Liberalised Market: Dilemmas inthe Reform of the Grain Price System in China (P. Zong).
The National Politics of International Trade Reform: The Case ofGermany (G. Hendriks).
GATT, Global Regulation and the Construction of a New HegemonicOrder (P. McMichael).