Cultivating Rice and Votes: The Institutional Origins of Agricultural Protectionism in Japan (Report) Cultivating Rice and Votes: The Institutional Origins of Agricultural Protectionism in Japan (Report)

Cultivating Rice and Votes: The Institutional Origins of Agricultural Protectionism in Japan (Report‪)‬

Journal of East Asian Studies 2010, Sept-Dec, 10, 3

Journal of East Asian Studies
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We explore in this article an institutional foundation of agricultural protectionism in Japan, a country long recognized as resisting international pressures to open up its rice market. Using out qualitative analysis of postwar politics of agricultural protectionism and a simple formal model, we argue that farmers in Japan have stronger incentives to mobilize electoral support for the governing party in multimember district systems than in single-member district systems, because the marginal effects of mobilization on policy benefits are different under these electoral systems. Out empirical findings corroborate this claim and provide implications for the gradual changes in Japan's farm policies occurring after the electoral reform in 1994. KEYWORDS: electoral systems, protectionism, agrarian politics, mobilization, natural experiment, SNTV, MMD, Japan

GENRE
Nonfiction
RELEASED
2010
September 1
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
45
Pages
PUBLISHER
Lynne Rienner Publishers
SELLER
The Gale Group, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an affiliate of Cengage Learning, Inc.
SIZE
258
KB

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