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Article: The origins of New Deal agricultural policy: interest groups' role in policy formation.
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- Policy Studies Journal
- Article date:
- June 22, 1993
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In its examination of New Deal agricultural programs, this article takes issue with the pluralist, state-centered, and class-centered approaches which ignore the complexity of these policy programs' development and implementation as well as the role of organized interests. This oversimplification is rectified through a comparison of the AAA and FSA programs, which demonstrates the primary role played in these programs' existance by organized interests both outside and within, the state.
Political scientists and historians have long recognized the New Deal as an irrefutable break with the past. Since its inception they have had an obligation to explain how and ...