Promotion of the agricultural sector and political power in Austria
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چکیده
The political influence of specific interest groups can be revealed using a "Political Preference Function" approach. Previous empirical studies have clearly shown that the strong promotion of agriculture in industrialized countries is due to the fact that farmers are able to exert greater political pressure than consumers and taxpayers. Extending the scope of investigation, this paper analyzes the role of upstream and downstream industries in the political process by concentrating on the Austrian bread grains market. It is found that the upstream and downstream industries were able to exert greater political pressure due to strong formal and informal influence channels, and have hence benefited considerably from agricultural policy. *) Markus F. Hofreither, professor, Klaus Salhofer und Franz Sinabell, research associates, Department of Economics, Politics and Law, University of Resource Sciences Vienna.
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