03293nam 2200661Ia 450 991078147520332120230725050749.00-8047-7766-710.1515/9780804777667(CKB)2550000000040756(EBL)735410(OCoLC)742367633(SSID)ssj0000525818(PQKBManifestationID)12189276(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000525818(PQKBWorkID)10508288(PQKB)10562845(StDuBDS)EDZ0000128057(MiAaPQ)EBC735410(DE-B1597)563779(DE-B1597)9780804777667(Au-PeEL)EBL735410(CaPaEBR)ebr10484205(OCoLC)1198932079(EXLCZ)99255000000004075620101006d2011 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSpending without taxation[electronic resource] FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan /Gene ParkStanford, California Stanford University Press20111 online resource (338 p.)Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research CenterDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-7330-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexGovernments 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 escheweStudies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.Fiscal policyJapanHistoryFinance, PublicJapanHistoryTaxationJapanHistoryJapanAppropriations and expendituresHistoryJapanPolitics and government1945-Fiscal policyHistory.Finance, PublicHistory.TaxationHistory.336.52Park Gene1971-1567404MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910781475203321Spending without taxation3838814UNINA