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 |
• | The Phantom Party's Head |
• | The Rise of the Career Politician |
![]() | The Invisible Feet of the Phantom Party |
![]() | The Role of Electoral Institutions |
• | Construction Friction and the Phantom Party |
![]() | 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 |