Internationalization and Canadian agriculture : policy and governing paradigms / Grace Skogstad.

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Examines the patterns of continuity and change in Canadian agricultural policy making in important areas like farm income support programs, prairie grain marketing, supply management, animal and food product safety, and the regulation of genetically modified crops and foods.

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With the collapse of the World Trade Organization's Doha Round in 2006, billions of dollars were lost to the world economy, and the economic gap between the North and South continued to expand. National agricultural policies are alleged to be the root of the collapse. Yet they tend to be given short shrift in the policy literature. Accordingly, this first comprehensive overview of Canadian agricultural policy, examining five principal issues since 1985, is a most welcome--and indispensable--addition to public policy analysis, especially given its theoretical context. Skogstad (Univ. of Toronto) brilliantly discusses theories on the influence of economic globalization and on the political internationalization of policy issues in relation to the role of domestic policy institutions that include parliamentary, federal, and judicial systems combined with complex policy networks (namely, domestic interests). The outcome of the interrelationship of these forces on the dominant "state assistance" paradigm is considered. The paradigm persists, but in a modified form as one of three possible outcomes. Understanding why this particular outcome emerges is as relevant to Canada as it is to other Western economies and to North-South economic relations. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate, graduate, research, and professional collections. A. F. Johnson Bishop's University