This book provides the first comprehensive account of the political power of Japanese farmers. It analyses their organisational and electoral bias, the role of agricultural interest groups, and the farm vote.

Aurelia George Mulgan is Senior Lecturer in the School of Politics at the University of New South Wales, and an internationally renowned authority in this field of Japanese politics and the Japanese political system. She has co-edited a number of books including The Political Economy of Agricultural Protection, Dynamic and Immobilist Politics in Japan, Australian Agriculture and Newly Industrialising Asia

1. Introduction 2. Interest Group Politics 3. Farmer's Politics 4. Organisational Politics 5. The Political Demography of Agriculture 6. Electoral Politics 7. Representative Politics 8. Policy Campaigning 9. Conclusion