This book examines how state and local institutions that manage water conveyance and drainage actually function. Thus a great deal is revealed about the relationships and power struggles that exist between government and the people and between central and local authorities.

Excerpt from Korea and Irrigation But this does not mean that the country is highly developed agriculturally. On the contrary, in Spite of all that Japan has done since the country was annexed by her in 1910, there are still left plenty of agricultural resources not yet utilized, and its advantages not yet fully availed of. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This book explores the politics of Korean developmental state and commitment of state agents to rapid industrialization within world political economy, focusing the Korean green revolution. It assesses how differences in state/society relationships affect agricultural research system priorities.