THE ORIGINS OF NEW-DEAL AGRICULTURAL POLICY - INTEREST-GROUPS ROLE INPOLICY FORMATION

In its examination of New Deal agricultural programs, this article tak es issue with the pluralist, state-centered, and class-centered approa ches which ignore the complexity of these policy programs' development and implementation as well as the role of organized interests. This o versimplification is rectified through a comparison of the AAA and FSA programs, which demonstrates the primary role played in these program s' existance by organized interests both outside and within, the state .