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Are Japanese bureaucrats politically stronger than farmers?: The political
economy of Japan’s rice set-aside program
Katsumi Arahata
Department of Agricultural Economics,
Faculty of Agriculture, Gifu University, Japan
1-1, Yanagido, Gifu shi,
Gifu pref. 501-1193, Japan
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Selected paper prepared for presentation at the American Agricultural Economics
Association Annual Meeting, Providence, Road Island, July 24-27, 2005
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