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Ann-Christina L. Knudsen - Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe´s Common Agricultural Policy - 9780801447273 - V9780801447273
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Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe´s Common Agricultural Policy

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Description for Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe´s Common Agricultural Policy Hardback. Num Pages: 368 pages, 3. BIC Classification: JPSN2; KNAC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 246 x 171 x 28. Weight in Grams: 686.

In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional answer focuses on the negotiations among the member states of the European Community from 1958 onwards. That story holds that the political priority, given to the CAP, as well as its long-term stability, resides in a basic devil's bargain between French agriculture and German industry.

In Farmers on Welfare, a landmark new account of the making of ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Cornell University Press United States
Number of pages
368
Condition
New
Number of Pages
368
Place of Publication
Ithaca, United States
ISBN
9780801447273
SKU
V9780801447273
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Ann-Christina L. Knudsen
Ann-Christina L. Knudsen is Associate Professor in the Department of European Studies at Aarhus University, Denmark.

Reviews for Farmers on Welfare: The Making of Europe´s Common Agricultural Policy
How is one to make sense of the surprising resilience of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) in the face of efforts at reforming it? This important book has much to say about the limbo in which the CAP currently finds itself, but, unlike most of the literature in the field, it does so through a historical analysis of the origins ... Read more

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