Framing the farm bill
Subtitle: interests, ideology, and the Agricultural Act of 2014
By: Christopher Bosso
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780700624195; 9780700624201
Subjects: United States; Agricultural laws and legislation; Farm law
Description: This book 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. It is the best treatment to date about how a policy area that once exemplified logrolling and deal-making confronted the contemporary realities of partisan gridlock, ideological extremism, and institutional dysfunction. Christopher Bosso succeeds in turning a classic beltway struggle into a lively account that helps the reader understand the government programs and political battles that shape how and what we eat.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What's going on in Kansas?; title: The food system: or, why governments don't leave agriculture to the marketplace; title: History is not bunk: how farm bills past shape farm bills present; title: Whatever it takes: farmers, foodstamps, and coalitions of convenience; title: "Stop the spending": budget politics and the "secret" farm bills; title: Building a pathway to sixty: the senate moves first; title: We're on the road to nowhere; title: SNAP; title: In conference - What just happened here? Finding meaning in the politics of the farm bill.