Readership: Scholars and Students of Political Science, Japanese Politics, Political Economy, Economics, Public Policy, Policy Analysts, Business
Maurice Wright, Director of the Japan Centre, University of Manchester
"... represents a major advance both in understanding of Japan's postwar economic history and in the potential for comparative analysis of the rise and (apparent?) fall of one of the world's most significant economic institutions." - The Economic History Review
"... an institutional portrait of immense depth and detail, based on unrivalled access to Japanese sources." - The Economic History Review
"... much more than just a history of the MOF's inability to find a way to solve the fiscal crisis." - The Economic History Review
1: Introduction 2: The Origins of the Fiscal Crisis Part I: The Context of Japanese Budgeting 3: The Politico-Economic Context 4: Administrative Reform 5: Politicians and Bureaucrats in the Policy-making Processes Part II: Institutions, Structures and Actors 6: The Spending Ministries and Agencies 7: Ministerial Autonomy and Territorial Boundaries: Co-ordination, Competition and Conflict in the Policy-making Processes 8: The Ministry of Finance 9: MOF's Elite Administrators 10: The LDP's Policy-making Structures 11: Budget Institutions and Structures 12: The 'Second Budget': The Fiscal Investment Loan Programme Part III: Interactions 13: Budget Objectives and Policies 14: Economic Forecasts and Fiscal Projections 15: Budget Strategy, Guidelines and Ceilings 16: The Budget Processes in the Spending Ministries 17: The Budget Bureau's Hearings, Examination and Negotiations 18: Rules-of-the-Game: Managing Relations with the Spending Ministries 19: Making the FILP Budget 20: The Role and Influence of the LDP in the Budgetary Processes Part IV: The Outputs of the Budgetary Processes 21: Who Wins, Who Loses? 22: Cuts and Squeezes in the Bureaucracy 23: A 'Public Works State' 24: Winning and Losing in the FILP Budget Part V: Effects and Effectiveness 25: Fiscal Reconstruction: 'Smoke and Mirrors' 26: Deficits and Debts 27: Japan's Fiscal Performance in an International Context 28: FILP Under Stress 29: Coping with Fiscal Stress 30: Budget Institutions, Deficits and Debts
