The political economy of the Japanese financial big bang : institutional change in finance and public policymaking / Tetsuro Toya ; Jennifer Amyx, consulting editor
Did Japanese politics change in the 1990s? -- A rational actor approach -- How do systems change? : Actors, preferences, strategies, and institutions in financial politics -- Expected economic implications of the big bang -- A political analysis of the emergence of the big bang initiative -- The financial industry and the big bang -- New developments in bureaupluralism : comparing and contrasting the big bang to the 1998 "Financial diet" -- Two institutional changes -- Conclusion
Summary
Toya Tetsuro emphasises change over continuity in Japanese policymaking. The text argues that Japan's Big Bang financial reforms emerged out of a policymaking process that deviated from past patterns
Notes
Based on the author's thesis (doctoral)--Stanford University, 2000
