{"product_id":"harvesting-state-support-hanno-jentzsch-9781487508548","title":"Harvesting State Support: Institutional Change and Local Agency in Japanese Agriculture","description":"\u003cp\u003eAgriculture 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. \u003ci\u003eHarvesting State Support\u003c\/i\u003e analyzes this process by shifting the analytical focus to the local level.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing 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, \u003ci\u003e Harvesting State Support\u003c\/i\u003e reveals new links between agricultural reform and other shifts in Japan's political economy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Hanno Jentzsch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1487508549\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781487508548\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/20\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 256\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.23lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.06h x 6.06w x 1.10d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2022","brand":"Hanno Jentzsch","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43986588041471,"sku":"9781487508548","price":74.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_38825333-1a9b-44f1-b2a8-3812ee632746.jpg?v=1683284240","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/harvesting-state-support-hanno-jentzsch-9781487508548","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}