The Political Economy of the Japanese Financial Big Bang: Institutional Change in Finance and Public Policymaking

By Tetsuro Toya and the late Tetsuro Toya

This book emphasizes change over continuity in Japanese policymaking. It argues that Japan's Big Bang financial reforms emerged out of a policymaking process that deviated radically from past patterns. Performance failures, scandals and fluidity in party politics led the Ministry of Finance to
promote reforms that otherwise would have been opposed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199292396
• ISBN13: 9780199292394
• Release Date: June 2006
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.3"