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This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations. - Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions. - Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

"""This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations.""--Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra ""Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions.""--Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington"

"""This meticulously researched book fills an important gap in our understanding of Japan's agricultural support and protection regime by analyzing how local actors and agricultural institutions have influenced the nature of change in that regime. What it reveals is that the agricultural reform process in Japan is a complex story of top-down and bottom-up. Change is the product of interaction between nationally imposed policy reforms and the norms, practices, and community links of local actors, including farmers and agricultural cooperative organizations."" --Aurelia George Mulgan, professor in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, Canberra ""Working with the case of Japan's agricultural policy, Hanno Jentzsch has written an important theoretical contribution about institutional change. Jentzsch carefully draws out a local theory of gradual institutional change, a novel contribution to scholarship. Besides being essential for anyone interested in Japan's agricultural policy, this book is also strongly recommended to those interested in Japan's politics or policy-making, or in the broader theories of institutions."" --Robert J. Pekkanen, professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington"

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Hanno Jentzsch is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Studies and Japanese Studies at the University of Vienna.

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