Politieke modernisering van het Groene Front?

Samenvatting

The system of agricultural interest intermediation & policy formation that developed during the Dutch postwar reconstruction is discussed in terms of a neocorporatist policy, revealing a symbiotic relationship between the Ministry of Agriculture & the farmers' lobby. In the 1980s, this coalition of interests was weakened by external pressure & internal disagreements related to problems of surplus production & agroenvironmental degradation. The history of the manure policy illustrates the process of decorporatization. Conflicts from the final phase of the national manure policy showed that the roles of all participants have changed. As of fall 1995, a new stabilized sociopolitical arrangement had emerged in the argicultural sector. Promises of self-regulation & network steering have been negated by the government's centralism & the new conservatism of the farmers' organizations. 1 Table, 23 References. Adapted from the source document.