Spending without taxation : FILP and the politics of public finance in Japan

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

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...

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Main Author: Park, Gene, 1971- (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011.
Series:Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center.
Subjects:
Since 1945
Fiscal policy > Japan > History.
Finance, Public > Japan > History.
Taxation > Japan > History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Public Finance.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > American Government > National.
Expenditures, Public
Finance, Public
Fiscal policy
Politics and government
Taxation
Japan > Appropriations and expenditures > History.
Japan > Politics and government > 1945-
Japan
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the FILP system
  • The common origins of budget restraint and FILP, 1945-1953
  • Balancing fiscal policy, industrialization and distributive politics, 1953-1970
  • The electoral logic of FILP allocations, 1960-1993
  • Pushing the limits of the FILP compromise, 1970-1990
  • The politics of FILP reform, 1990-2001
  • The Koizumi reforms and the legacy of FILP, 2001 and after.

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