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Framing the Farm Bill: Interests, Ideology, and Agricultural Act of 2014
Contributor(s): Bosso, Christopher J. (Author)

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ISBN: 0700624201     ISBN-13: 9780700624201
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
OUR PRICE: $31.45  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: March 2017
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BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | Public Policy - Agriculture & Food Policy
- History | United States - 21st Century
- Political Science | History & Theory - General
Dewey: 343.730
LCCN: 2016047592
Physical Information: 0.7" H x 6" W x 9.1" L (0.70 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Chronological Period - 21st Century
Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
 
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In January 2014, for the first time in the history of federal farm legislation going back to the Great Depression, all four members of the US House of Representatives from Kansas voted against the Farm Bill, despite pleas by the state's agricultural leaders to support it. Why? The story of the Agricultural Act of 2014, as it unfolds in Framing the Farm Bill, has much to tell us about the complex nature of farm legislation, food policy, and partisan politics in present-day America.

The Farm Bill is essential to the continuation of the many programs that structure agriculture in this country, from farm loans, commodity subsidies, and price supports for farmers to food support for the poor, notably food stamps. It was in the 1970s, with urbanization increasingly undermining political interest in farm programs, that rural legislators added the food stamp program to the Farm Bill to build support among urban and suburban legislators. Christopher Bosso offers a deft account of how this strategy, which over time led to the food stamp program becoming the largest expenditure in the Farm Bill, ran into the wave of conservative Republicans swept into Congress in 2010. With many of these new members objecting to the very existence of the food stamp program--and in many cases to government's involvement in agriculture, period--and with Democrats vehemently opposing reductions, especially in light of the 2008 recession, the stage was set for a battle involving some of the most crucial issues in American life.

Framing the Farm Bill 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.


Contributor Bio(s): Bosso, Christopher J.: - Christopher Bosso is professor of public policy and urban affairs at Northeastern University. His books include Environment, Inc.: From Grassroots to Beltway, also from Kansas, and Pesticides and Politics: The Life Cycle of a Public Issue.
 
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