Agents of fundamental policy change?: political strategies of the environmental, sustainable agriculture, and family farm groups in the 1990 farm bill

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dc.contributor.authorLang, Helmuten
dc.contributor.committeechairWalcott, Charles E.en
dc.contributor.committeememberBatie, Sandra S.en
dc.contributor.committeememberLuke, Timothy W.en
dc.contributor.departmentPolitical Scienceen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:27:06Zen
dc.date.adate2010-01-12en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:27:06Zen
dc.date.issued1992-09-16en
dc.date.rdate2010-01-12en
dc.date.sdate2010-01-12en
dc.description.abstractThis study investigates the strategies and policy impacts of the environmental, family farm, and sustainable agriculture groups in the 1990 farm bill legislation. In spite of "genuine" interest in a fundamental policy reform, and in spite of a common agenda, the three different types of interest groups mostly opted for parochial, incremental policy demands. This self-restrictive interest group behavior and the groups' limited impacts on policy outcomes is explained by organizational limitations and self-interests of the challenging interest groups as well as by institutional protection of the American political system. This protection specifically applies to the agricultural domain with its distinctive farm bill construction. <u>New and potentially challenging farm bill interest groups have not been agents for fundamental policy change</u>, as the policy status quo (old policies as well as governmental inaction) is structurally protected.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.format.extentvii, 223 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-01122010-020218en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-01122010-020218/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/40621en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1992.L362.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 26613701en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1992.L362en
dc.subject.lcshAgricultural conservation -- Political aspects -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshAgriculture and state -- Political aspects -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshFamily farms -- Political aspects -- United Statesen
dc.subject.lcshSustainable agriculture -- Political aspects -- United Statesen
dc.titleAgents of fundamental policy change?: political strategies of the environmental, sustainable agriculture, and family farm groups in the 1990 farm billen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplinePolitical Scienceen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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