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OverviewAgriculture has been among the toughest political battlegrounds in postwar Japan and represents an ideal case study in institutional stability and change. Inefficient land use and a rapidly aging workforce have long been undermining the economic viability of the agricultural sector. Yet vested interests in the small-scale, part-time agricultural production structure have obstructed major reforms. Change has instead occurred in more subtle ways. Since the mid-1990s, a gradual reform process has dismantled some of the core pillars of the postwar agricultural support and protection regime. Harvesting State Support analyzes this process by shifting the analytical focus to the local level. Drawing on extensive qualitative field research, Hanno Jentzsch investigates how local actors, including farmers, local governments, and local agricultural cooperatives, have translated abstract policies into local practice. Showing how local variants are constructed through recombining national reforms with the local informal institutional environment, Harvesting State Support reveals new links between agricultural reform and other shifts in Japan's political economy. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Hanno JentzschPublisher: University of Toronto Press Imprint: University of Toronto Press Dimensions: Width: 15.90cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 23.50cm Weight: 0.560kg ISBN: 9781487508548ISBN 10: 1487508549 Pages: 256 Publication Date: 20 May 2021 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Temporarily unavailable  The supplier advises that this item is temporarily unavailable. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out to you. Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Abbreviations Foreword Acknowledgments Part One: Introduction: Institutional Change in Japan's Agricultural Sector 1. Japan's Agricultural Support and Protection Regime 2. Toward a Local Perspective on Gradual Institutional Change 3. Institutional Change in Japanese Agricultural Support and Protection through the Local Lens Part Two: Japan's Agricultural Support and Protection over Time 4. Postwar Evolution of Support and Protection 5. Gradual Change and Increasing Institutional Ambiguity in Agricultural Support and Protection Part Three: Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions 6. Different Local Manifestations of Macro-Level Change 7. Postwar Formation of Local Agricultural Regimes and Village Institutions Part Four: Village Institutions as Dynamic Resources - Local Renegotiation of Agricultural Support and Protection 8. Farmland Consolidation as a Social Process 9. Local Variations of Agricultural Entrepreneurship 10. Hamlet-Based Collective Farming and Village Institutions 11. Boundary Change: Decreasing Prospects for Comprehensive Local Institutional Agency Part Five: Conclusions 12. Renegotiating Japan's Agricultural Support and Protection 13. Institutional Change through the Local Lens Appendix A: Field Research Appendix B: Interviews Appendix C: Types of Farms in Japan Appendix D: Paddy Field Subsidies Notes References IndexReviews"""This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations."" --Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra ""Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions."" --Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington" This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations. - Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions. - Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington """This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations.""--Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra ""Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions.""--Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington" Author InformationHanno Jentzsch is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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