Japans Budget Politics : : Balancing Domestic and International Interests / / Takaaki Suzuki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Suzuki, Takaaki,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]; ©2000
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: A Study of the East Asian Institute
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (284 p.)

What is the source of the increasing politicization of Japan's budgetary policy? Takaaki Suzuki explores this question, finding the answer in the the interplay of domestic and international politics from the early 1970s through the 1990s. Suzuki points out that, just as modern state leaders must strike a balance between the appropriate roles of the market and the state in determining how scarce resources are to be allocated internally, so must they continually negotiate with their foreign counterparts to foster freer international markets while mitigating the social costs they entail. States are confronted with the challenge of devising budgetary policies that accomodate both domestic and international concerns; Suzuki offers a cogent account of how the Japanese state has responded to this challenge.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: Introduction -- 1 Overview -- 2 The Two-Level Framework -- Part Two: Policy in the 1970s -- Introduction -- 3 Achieving International Cooperation -- 4 The Politics of Profligacy: Fiscal Crisis -- 5 Analysis: Assessing the Two-Level Hypothesis for the 1970s -- Part Three: Policy in the 1980s -- Introduction -- 6 Failing Cooperation: Macroeconomic Coordination at a Standstill -- 7 The Politics of Budgetary Retrenchment -- 8 Analysis: Assessing the Two-Level Hypothesis for the 1980s -- Part Four: Policy After the Bubble -- 9 The Return of Deficit Financing -- Part Five: Conclusions -- 10 Evaluating the Politics of Japanese Budgetary Policy -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book -- Studies of the East Asian Institute