U.S. Farm Bills and Policy Reforms:  Ideological Conflicts Over World Trade, Renewable Energy, and Sustainable Agriculture
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Table of Contents

List of Figures

xi

List of Tables

xiii

Acknowledgments

xv

List of Abbreviations

xvii

Chapter 1: Farm Bills, Interest Groups, and Policy Change

1

Shifting Prospects for Farm Policy Reform, 2005–2008

5

Farm Bill History

9

Farm Policy Interest Groups

14

Summing Up: Interest Groups and Questions of Farm Policy Change

24

Methods

26

Conclusions

29

Chapter 2: Windows and Frames: A Farm Bill Analysis Framework

31

Opportunity: Contexts, Windows, and Policy Impacts

33

Framing Change: Messaging, Discourse, and Policy Impact

40

Contributions to the Literature

48

Conclusions

50

Chapter 3: Policy Change and Policy Stability in Farm Bill History

53

Change Moment #1: The 1933 Agricultural Adjustment Act

57

Stability Period #1: The 1938 Agricultural Adjustment Act and 1948, 1949, 1954, 1956, 1965, and 1970 Agricultural Acts

60