The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality : : Tax Politics in Japan /

The Problem of Bureaucratic Rationality : : Tax Politics in Japan / / Junko Kato.

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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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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Archive (pre 2000) eBook Package
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Kato, Junko,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [1994]
©1995
Year of Publication:1994
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.) :; 9 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Conventions
  • Abbreviations
  • Introduction
  • CHAPTER ONE. Bureaucratic Rationality and Strategic Behavior: The Framework
  • CHAPTER TWO. Bureaucratic Rationality and Strategic Behavior: Japanese Tax Reform
  • CHAPTER THREE0. 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 Finance's 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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