Framing the farm bill : interests, ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014 / Christopher Bosso.

Author
Bosso, Christopher J. (Christopher John), 1956- [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, 2017.
Description
1 online resource (viii, 200 pages)

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This book is an enlightening look at federal agricultural policy--its workings, its history, and its present state--as well as the effect federal legislation has on farming practices, the environment, and our diet, in a thoroughly readable primer on the politics of food in America. It is the best treatment to date about how a policy area that once exemplified logrolling and deal-making confronted the contemporary realities of partisan gridlock, ideological extremism, and institutional dysfunction. Christopher Bosso succeeds in turning a classic beltway struggle into a lively account that helps the reader understand the government programs and political battles that shape how and what we eat.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Contents
  • What's going on in Kansas
  • The food system : or, why governments don't leave agriculture to the marketplace
  • History is not bunk : how farm bills past shape farm bills present
  • Whatever it takes : farmers, food stamps, and coalitions of convenience
  • "Stop the spending" : budget politics and the "Secret" farm bill
  • Building a pathway to sixty : the Senate moves first
  • We're on the road to nowhere
  • SNAP
  • In conference
  • What just happened here? Finding meaning in the politics of the farm bill.
ISBN
  • 9780700624218 ((electronic bk.))
  • 070062421X ((electronic bk.))
OCLC
973017666
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