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Framing the Farm Bill - by Christopher J Bosso

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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.
  • Author(s): Christopher J Bosso
  • 208 Pages
  • Political Science, Public Policy

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About the Book



The story of why all four members of the U.S. House of Representatives from Kansas voted against passage of the Agricultural Act of 2014, known popularly as the Farm Bill, despite pleas by the state's agricultural leaders to support it.



Book Synopsis



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.



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"Framing the Farm Bill 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."--Adam Sheingate, associate professor of political science, Johns Hopkins University

"Farm subsidies are an old story in America, but their most recent enactment brought important new national conflicts into sharp relief. Most laws are indeed like sausages ("it is better not to see them being made"), but the Agricultural Act of 2014 deserves all the scrutiny provided in Christopher Bosso's important and highly readable new book."--Robert Paarlberg, Adjunct Professor of Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School

"Framing the Farm Bill tells a fascinating story about how the Farm Bill came to include the food stamps program, and how this marriage of political convenience was an important factor in sustaining the political support for both over time. Bosso shows how increased partisanship and political ideology came to outweigh constituency pressures and transformed the once routine politics of the food."--Robert J. Duffy, professor of political science, Colorado State University



"This book is a fundamental primer on the history of agricultural policymaking."--H-Net Reviews

"Bosso does an excellent job of helping the reader understand what he calls a 'nearly incomprehensible mess.'"--Kansas History


Dimensions (Overall): 9.2 Inches (H) x 6.2 Inches (W) x .9 Inches (D)
Weight: 1.0 Pounds
Suggested Age: 22 Years and Up
Number of Pages: 208
Genre: Political Science
Sub-Genre: Public Policy
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Format: Hardcover
Author: Christopher J Bosso
Language: English
Street Date: March 17, 2017
TCIN: 94275692
UPC: 9780700624195
Item Number (DPCI): 247-14-7867
Origin: Made in the USA or Imported
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Estimated ship dimensions: 0.9 inches length x 6.2 inches width x 9.2 inches height
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