This book examines current theories of institutional change. The chapters highlight the limitations of these theories. Instead a model emerges of contemporary political economies developing in incremental but cumulatively transformative processes. (Provided by publisher)

Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: History, Policy, and institutions -- Chapter 2: Foundations of the Agricultural Welfare State -- Chapter 3: The Challenge of Market Intervention -- Chapter 4: The Postwar Development of the Agricultural -- Welfare State -- Chapter 5: The Politics of...

A long-dominant reading of American politics holds that public policy in the United States is easily captured by special interest groups. Countering this view, Adam Sheingate traces the development of government intervention in agriculture from its nineteenth-century origins to contemporary...