Spending without taxation : FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan / Gene Park.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Park, Gene, 1971-

Series:

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.

Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fiscal policy--Japan--History.

Fiscal policy.

Finance, Public--Japan--History.

Finance, Public.

Taxation--Japan--History.

Taxation.

Japan--Appropriations and expenditures--History.

Japan.

Japan--Politics and government--1945-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (338 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Governments confront difficult political choices when they must determine how to balance their spending. But what would happen if a government found a means of spending without taxation? In this book, Gene Park demonstrates how the Japanese government established and mobilized an enormous off-budget spending system, the Fiscal Investment Loan Program (FILP), which drew on postal savings, public pensions, and other funds to pay for its priorities and reduce demands on the budget.Park's book argues that this system underwrote a distinctive postwar political bargain, one that eschewe

Contents:

Contents; Figures and Tables; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction; 2. Understanding the FILP System; Part I: FILP and the Postwar Settlement; 3. The Common Origins of Budget Restraint and FILP, 1945-1953; 4. Balancing Fiscal Policy, Industrialization, and Distributive Politics, 1953-1970; 5. The Electoral Logic of FILP Allocations, 1960-1993; Part II: The Limits of FILP; 6. Pushing the Limits of the FILP Compromise, 1970-1990; 7. The Politics of FILP Reform, 1990-2001; 8. The Koizumi Reforms and the Legacy of FILP, 2001 and After; 9. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780804777667

0804777667

OCLC:

742367633