Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality : Tax Politics in Japan /

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Through a detailed account of the political battles over Japanese tax reform during the last two decades, Junko Kato draws an unconventional portrait of bureaucratic motivation, showing how fiscal bureaucrats exploit their unique technical knowledge to influence policymaking. Rejecting the notion th...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Kato, Junko, 1961- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: [Princeton, N.J.] : Princeton University Press, [2001]
Subjects:
Bureaucracy > Japan.
Civil service > Japan.
Taxation > Japan.
Bureaucratie > Japon.
Impôt > Japon.
Bureaucracy.
Civil service.
Taxation.
Japan.
Electronic resource.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover13;
  • Contents13;
  • List of Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Conventions
  • List of Abbreviations
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE Bureaucratic Rationality and Strategic Behavior: The Framework
  • CHAPTER TWO Bureaucratic Rationality and Strategic Behavior: Japanese Tax Reform
  • CHAPTER THREE Lessons for Bureaucrats: From the Proposal for a Tax Increase in the Late 1970s to Fiscal Reconstruction without a Tax Increase in the Early 1980s
  • CHAPTER FOUR Reframing the Tax Issue: The Ministry of Finances Fiscal and Tax Policies in the Early 1980s
  • CHAPTER FIVE The Tax Reform Proposal in the mid-1980s: Uneasy Cooperation between Prime Minister Nakasone and the Ministry of Finance
  • CHAPTER SIX The Third Attempt: Introduction of the Consumption Tax and the Securities Trading Scandal
  • CHAPTER SEVEN Conclusion: Bureaucracy, Party, and the Power of Rationality
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Chronology of the Tax Reform Process from 1975 to 1991
  • Index.

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