Japan Under Construction

  Acknowledgments
  Note on Conventions

 collapse sectionIntroduction
 collapse sectionThe Dual Political Economy
 The Developmental State
 collapse sectionThe Clientelist State
 Particularism
 Political Corruption
 Economic Inefficiency
 Clientelism and Single-Party Dominance
 Political Actors and Institutions
 Rival Approaches
 Summary
 collapse sectionOne  Construction Contractors and the Calculus of Collusion
 Profile of a Two-Tier Industry
 Historical Development of the Industry
 Dango as a Collusive System
 The Logic of Collusive Action
 collapse sectionTwo  Public Works Bureaucrats Under Siege
 collapse sectionThe Publics Works Bureaucrats
 MOC's Structure and Mission
 MOC's "Two Species"
 Two Ladders to the Top
 Politics and Personnel: The Kono Tempest
 Personnel "Loans"
 The Roots of Sectionalist Rivalry
 collapse sectionDescent from Heaven
 Amakudari to Construction Firms
 "Side-Slipping" into Public Corporations
 Descending into Elective Politics
 "Construction Friction"
 collapse sectionThree  The Career Politician and the Phantom Party's Invisible Feet
 The Phantom Party's Head
 The Rise of the Career Politician
 collapse sectionThe Invisible Feet of the Phantom Party
 Koenkai
 The Pillars of Influence
 A Costly Career
 collapse sectionThe Role of Electoral Institutions
 Changing the Rules of the Electoral Game
 Construction Friction and the Phantom Party
 collapse sectionFour  Factioneers, Tribalists, and the LDP's Construction Caucus
 collapse sectionFactions and Political Clientelism
 Candidate Endorsement and Campaign Support
 Political Funds
 Allocation of Posts
 Constituency Service Networks
 collapse sectionThe Construction Tribe
 The Shadow Cabinet
 The Enigma of Japanese Pork
 The Bounties of Credit-Claiming
 Tiptoeing toward Resolution
 collapse sectionConclusion  Change and Inertia in the Politics of Japanese Public Works
 Foreign Pressure and Domestic Change
 The Imperiled Domestic Interests
 Growth with Clientelism
 Another Japanese Export?
 How Institutions Matter
 Wrecking Ball or Face-Lift?
 Implications for Reform

  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
 collapse sectionNotes
 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
  References
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