ABSTRACT
In this analysis of Japan's policy-making, David Williams places his argument within the debates about Japanese political economy in the United States and Britain, debates previously polarised between `market' and `ministry' views. He presents Japanese-style nationalist development as a serious challenge to Western values and theory.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
section |13 pages
Introduction
chapter 1|7 pages
Policymaking in an economic superpower
part I|85 pages
The Politics
section |32 pages
Policymakers and the Japanese political system
chapter 3|17 pages
Why the centre holds
chapter 4|13 pages
Gentlemen and players in the policy contest
section |51 pages
The Japanese state at work
chapter 5|14 pages
Four policy lessons from the 1980s
chapter 6|10 pages
The Ministry of Finance and the Japanese miracle
chapter 8|8 pages
Politics and policies since the bubble
part II|105 pages
The Philosophy
section |40 pages
The foundations of the Japanese approach
section |58 pages
Theories and controversies
section |5 pages
Coda
