Spending Without Taxation - Filp and the Politics of Public Finance in Japan

Zusatztext "[P]rovides a compelling rationale for FILP's importance in Japan's postwar political economy. . . . [N]o one has brought to bear the sustained focus, historical scope, or analytical rigor that Gene Park has with this book." Informationen zum Autor Gene Park is an assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at Baruch College. He has also been a Shorenstein Fellow at Stanford University's Asia-Pacific Research Center (APARC), and a Visiting Scholar at the Japanese Ministry of Finance's Policy Research Institute. He was also the receipient of a Fulbright IIE fellowship. He has a Ph.D. in Political Science for the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext This book chronicles the rise and fall of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's political strategy of using an off-budget financial mechanism--the Fiscal Investment Loan Program--to deliver the seemingly impossible: low taxes, high spending and balanced budgets. Zusammenfassung This book chronicles the rise and fall of the long-ruling Liberal Democratic Party's political strategy of using an off-budget financial mechanism—the Fiscal Investment Loan Program—to deliver the seemingly impossible: low taxes, high spending and balanced budgets.

Product details

• Authors: Gene Park
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.03.2011
• EAN: 9780804773300
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-7330-0
• No. of pages: 344
• Series: Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center; Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shore; Studies of the Walter H. Shorenstein Asia-Pacific Research Center
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration