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This chapter looks at specific problems and proposed solutions that have been advanced by several policy professionals in their case studies. It then analyzes the likelihood of successful adoptions of the proposals (for example, their political feasibility). In this sense, the chapter is an applied agricultural case that uses the tools of political economics—especially political transactions and the costs of making them.
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Browne, W.P. (1999). Political Feasibility: Institutional Limits on Environmental Regulation. In: Casey, F., Schmitz, A., Swinton, S., Zilberman, D. (eds) Flexible Incentives for the Adoption of Environmental Technologies in Agriculture. Natural Resource Management and Policy, vol 17. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4395-0_21
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