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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456981503321

Autore

Park Gene <1971->

Titolo

Spending without taxation [[electronic resource] ] : FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan / / Gene Park

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-7766-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

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

Disciplina

336.52

Soggetti

Fiscal policy - Japan - History

Finance, Public - Japan - History

Taxation - Japan - History

Electronic books.

Japan Appropriations and expenditures History

Japan Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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