Drawing on the expertise of an internationally renowned group of authors, this monograph examines the complex political, social and institutional problems encountered by modern states seeking to manage their agricultural sectors. Using examples from regions around the globe including Scandinavia, New Zealand, China and Germany, the book delves into topics as diverse as agribusiness and corporatism, regulation of agriculture, productivist paradigms, politics of agricultural change, agricultural deregulation, retailing in a regulatory state, managed versus liberalised markets, the national...

This book analyzes policy issues regarding the education of minority students in western industrialized societies and presents a number of case studies of programs that have been successful in reversing the pattern of minority students' academic failure. A central theme throughout is that the causes of minority students' academic difficulties are rooted in the power relations between the dominant and subordinate groups in society and that educators should enable minority students to empower themselves.