Japan Under Construction |
Acknowledgments |
Note on Conventions |
Introduction |
One Construction Contractors and the Calculus of Collusion |
Two Public Works Bureaucrats Under Siege |
Three The Career Politician and the Phantom Party's Invisible Feet |
Four Factioneers, Tribalists, and the LDP's Construction Caucus |
Conclusion Change and Inertia in the Politics of Japanese Public Works |
Appendix A Chronology of Trade Friction and Scandal in Japanese Construction, 1985–1994 |
Appendix B Administrative Vice-Ministers of Construction, 1948–1994 |
Appendix C Construction Ministers, 1955–1994 |
Appendix D Positional Influence and the Pork Barrel: A Multivariate Regression Model |
Notes |
References |
Index |