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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.
First Published in 2011. This title takes econometric studies as data; it examines their assumptions, investigates their methodologies, contrasts the data sets they use, and compares their results. By informing users what they can and cannot expect from researchers, it can sharpen the criteria that are used to commission such studies and judge their results. By examining an array of studies dealing with the same or related phenomena, Bohi can analyse the ways in which decisions made by researchers affect their results. All while considering inferences surrounding the role of econometric demand estimation in formulating policy and understanding demand behavior.
The first of an eight-volume series, The Literature of the Agricultural Sciences, this book analyzes the trends in the published literature of agricultural economics and rural sociology during the past fifty years. It uses citation analysis and other bibliometric techniques to identify the primary journals, report series, and monographs of current importance to the developed industrial countries as well as those in the Third World.
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Le Centre Ifremer de Brest a hébergé la 15e conférence annuelle de l'Association européenne des économistes des pêches. La conférence a rassemblé plus de 80 participants. Les communications ont traité de thèmes très divers touchant aux aspects économiques des usages et de la gestion des ressources et de l'environnement marin, des industries et des marchés. Les débats sur la réforme de la politique commune de la pêche 2002, abordée en plénière, ont montré l'importance de la gestion des pêches pour la recherche économique. Plusieurs communications et une table ronde se sont centrées sur la filière, la consommation et les marchés des produits de la mer : ces thèmes mobilisent de plus en plus l'attention des économistes européens.