Japan Under Construction |
Acknowledgments |
Note on Conventions |
![]() | Introduction |
![]() | The Dual Political Economy |
• | The Developmental State |
![]() | The Clientelist State |
• | Particularism |
• | Political Corruption |
• | Economic Inefficiency |
• | Clientelism and Single-Party Dominance |
• | Political Actors and Institutions |
• | Rival Approaches |
• | Summary |
![]() | One 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 |
![]() | Two Public Works Bureaucrats Under Siege |
![]() | The 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 |
![]() | Descent from Heaven |
• | Amakudari to Construction Firms |
• | "Side-Slipping" into Public Corporations |
• | Descending into Elective Politics |
• | "Construction Friction" |
![]() | 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 |
• | Koenkai |
• | The Pillars of Influence |
• | A Costly Career |
![]() | The Role of Electoral Institutions |
• | Changing the Rules of the Electoral Game |
• | Construction Friction and the Phantom Party |
![]() | Four Factioneers, Tribalists, and the LDP's Construction Caucus |
![]() | Factions and Political Clientelism |
• | Candidate Endorsement and Campaign Support |
• | Political Funds |
• | Allocation of Posts |
• | Constituency Service Networks |
![]() | The Construction Tribe |
• | The Shadow Cabinet |
• | The Enigma of Japanese Pork |
• | The Bounties of Credit-Claiming |
• | Tiptoeing toward Resolution |
![]() | Conclusion 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 |
![]() | Notes |
• | 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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