We explore in this article an institutional foundation of agricultural protectionism in Japan, a country long recognized as resisting international pressures to open up its rice market. Using our qualitative analysis of postwar politics of agricultural protectionism and a simple formal model, we...

The opening of the European agricultural market will become a crucial challenge facing the European Community in the years to come. Attempts at reform have so far proofed insufficent. Especially ecologically orientated reforms will certainly contribute to secure European farmers an economic...