Aurelia George Mulgan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of New South Wales, and an internationally renowned authority in this field of Japanese politics and the Japanese political system. She has co-edited a number of books including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection, Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan, Australian Agriculture and Newly Industrialising Asia

'The reader cannot help admiring the painstaking and detailed analysis. The book is a brilliant study ... highly recommended to all of those who are interested in why agricultural policy is as it is, and not as it should be.' - Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture

• 1. Introduction 2. Interest Group Politics 3. Farmer's Politics 4. Organisational Politics 5. The Political Demography of Agriculture 6. Electoral Politics 7. Representative Politics 8. Policy Campaigning 9. Conclusion

Aurelia George Mulgan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of New South Wales, and an internationally renowned authority in this field of Japanese politics and the Japanese political system. She has co-edited a number of books including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection, Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan, Australian Agriculture and Newly Industrialising Asia

'The reader cannot help admiring the painstaking and detailed analysis. The book is a brilliant study ... highly recommended to all of those who are interested in why agricultural policy is as it is, and not as it should be.' - Quarterly Journal of International Agriculture

• 1. Introduction 2. Interest Group Politics 3. Farmer's Politics 4. Organisational Politics 5. The Political Demography of Agriculture 6. Electoral Politics 7. Representative Politics 8. Policy Campaigning 9. Conclusion