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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811594103321

Autore

Knudsen Ann-Christina L. <1971->

Titolo

Farmers on welfare : the making of Europe's common agricultural policy / / Ann-Christina L. Knudsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-5889-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

338.1/84

Soggetti

Agriculture and state - European Union countries - History

Welfare state - European Union countries - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-338) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : time, welfarism, and European integration -- The agricultural welfare state -- The Europeanization of agricultural politics -- Outlining the options for the CAP, January 1958 to June 1960 -- Decisions and indecisions for the CAP, June 1960 to January 1962 -- The politics of the common price level, January 1962 to December 1964 -- European farmers on welfare -- Conclusion : the CAP and Europe's history.

Sommario/riassunto

In 2007 the farm subsidies of the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy took over 40 percent of the entire EU budget. How did a sector of diminishing social and economic importance manage to maintain such political prominence? The conventional.