Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents VII
3. Acknowledgments IX
4. Note on Conventions XIII
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Construction Contractors and the Calculus of Collusion 25
7. 2. Public Works Bureaucrats Under Siege 51
8. 3. The Career Politician and the Phantom Party's Invisible Feet 81
9. 4. Factioneers, Tribalists, and the LDP's Construction Caucus 103
10. Conclusion: Change and Inertia in the Politics of Japanese Public Works 124
11. Appendix A. Chronology of Trade Friction and Scandal in Japanese Construction, 1985-1994 151
12. Appendix B. Administrative Vice-Ministers of Construction, 1948-1994 155
13. Appendix C. Construction Ministers, 1955-1994 157
14. Appendix D. Positional Influence and the Pork Barrel: A Multivariate Regression Model 159
15. Notes 163
16. References 181
17. Index 205