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- Title
Cultivating Rice and Votes: The Institutional Origins of Agricultural Protectionism in Japan.
- Authors
Horiuchi, Yusaku; Saito, Jun
- Abstract
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 our 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. Our empirical findings corroborate this claim and provide implications for the gradual changes in Japan's farm policies occurring after the electoral reform in 1994.
- Subjects
JAPAN; AGRICULTURAL policy; PROTECTIONISM; RICE marketing; QUALITATIVE research; EMPIRICAL research
- Publication
Journal of East Asian Studies, 2010, Vol 10, Issue 3, p425
- ISSN
1598-2408
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1598240800003684