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Rural Failure: The Linkage Between Policy and Lobbies
Author(s) -
Browne William P.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
policy studies journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.773
H-Index - 69
eISSN - 1541-0072
pISSN - 0190-292X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02078.x
Subject(s) - linkage (software) , presidential system , phenomenon , political science , rural area , inertia , economics , public administration , political economy , public economics , law , biochemistry , chemistry , physics , classical mechanics , quantum mechanics , politics , gene
The failure of a national rural policy is a complex phenomenon. Suffice to say that such policy never emerged, despite frequent appearances on the presidential agenda. This analysis looks beyond institutional inertia and examines the reasons why no sustained rural lobby was ever created independent of farm interests. The circular explanation finds (hat lobbies fail to develop in the absence of a supportive base on which to place their demands for change.