Publisher's Synopsis
This penetrating study examines the emergence of the most powerful agricultural union, the FNSEA, as a force in French politics, the trends towards corporatization and decorporatization of the agricultural sector, governmental efforts at reform, and decorporatization in Mitterand's France. A new, sector-oriented theoretical framework is introduced, which is suitable for analyzing the corporatization process in any democratic society. The book also offers a general model of the 'corporatist imperative' in the agricultural sector of democratic polities, which it tests with comparative case studies of the United States, Britain, Italy, and West Germany. Readership: political scientists; economists.
