Japan's Budget Politics : Balancing Domestic and International Interests.

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Title Page ; Copyright page ; Dedication page ; Contents ; List of Tables ; Table 3.1 GDP of Four Nations as a Percentage of U.S. GDP, 1955-1975; Table 3.2 Comparative Consumer Price Index, 1970-1980; Table 3.3 Shift in Japan's Current and Trade Account, July-December 1976; Table 3.4 General and Central Government Surplus or Deficitas a Percentage of Nominal GDP; Table 4.1 General Account Budget and GNE, 1955-1972; Table 4.2 Average Yearly Change in Share, Japan and United States; Table 4.3 Rural and Urban Population (1,000); Table 4.4 Employment Population by Industry (in percent).

Table 4.5 Demographic Composition of LDP Votes and Lower House SeatsTable 4.6 Political Base of LDP Support by Occupation; Table 5.1 Average Yearly Change in Budget Share, 1961-1980; Table 6.1 Relative Share of GNP Among G-5 Nations, 1955-1980; Table 6.2 Comparative Data of Inflation and GNP Growth; Table 6.3 Japan's Trade Balance in Dollar and Yen Terms, 1986; Table 6.4 Yen/Dollar Monthly Basis; Table 7.1 General and Central Government Financial BalancesSurplus or Deficit ( -- ) as a Percentage of Nominal GDP; Table 7.2 Tax Burden as a Percentage of National Income.

Table 7.3 Change in the Share of Subsidies as a Percentage of the BudgetTable 7.4 Public Works Spending, 1981-1987; Table 7.5 Food Account Subsidy, 1980-1986; Table 7.6 General Account Budget, 1980-1989; Table 8.1 Average Yearly Change in Budget Share, 1961-1990; Table 9.1 1993 Lower House Election; Table 9.2 Japan's Real GDP and Current Account Balance, 1990-1996; Table 9.3 Fiscal Stimulus Packages, 1992-1995; Acknowledgments ; Part 1- Introduction ; Chapter 1- Overview ; The International Context; The Domestic Context; The Two-Level Framework; Organization of the Book; Notes.

Chapter 2- The Two-Level FrameworkThe International Level: Embedded Liberalism and the Politics of Macroeconomic Coordination; State, Society, and the Politics of Japanese Budgetary Policy; Integrating the Two Levels; Notes; Part 2- Policy in the 1970s; Introduction; Notes; Chapter 3- Achieving International Cooperation; The Collapse of Bretton Woods and the Politics of Macroeconomic Coordination; The Road to London and Bonn; Notes; Chapter 4- The Politics of Profligacy: Fiscal Crisis; The Initial Setting: The LDP at a Crossroad; The Budgetary Inroads of Tanaka Kakuei.

"Mr. Clean" and the Budgetary CrisisThe Fiscal Gambit of Fukuda Takeo; Notes; Chapter 5- Analysis: Assessing the Two-Level Hypothesis for the 1970s; Notes; Part 3- Policy in the 1980s; Introduction; Chapter 6- Failing Cooperation: Macroeconomic Coordination at a Standstill; The Rekindled Debate over Macroeconomic Coordination; Bonn II and Tokyo II: Summits Without Success; After Tokyo II: Renewed Pressures, Token Concessions; Notes; Chapter 7- The Politics of Budgetary Retrenchment ; The Initial Setting: The Political Legacy of Deficit Financing.

The Birth of Gyozaisei Saiken (Administrative and Fiscal Reform).

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