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List of Figures xvi
List of Tables xvii
List of Abbreviations xviii
Did Japanese Politics Change in the 1990s? 1
Change or Continuity? 1
Research Puzzles 7
Methodological Approach and Theoretical Framework 10
Argument in Brief 13
Structure of the Book 18
Analytical Framework
A Rational Actor Approach 23
Three Contentious Issues in Japanese Politics 23
Works on Japanese Financial Politics and the Big Bang 33
The Study's Methodological Approach and Research Design 36
Possible Alternative Explanations 42
How do Systems Change?: Actors, Preferences, Strategies, and Institutions in Financial Politics 46
Introduction of conceptual tools for institutional analysis 46
A Theoretical Framework for Institutional Change 51
The Dynamics of Organizational Survival 58
State Actors (1)-Political Parties 60
State Actors (2)-Bureaucratic Agencies 63
Societal Actors (1)-Firms and Interest Groups 68
Societal Actors (2)-The Public 71
Institutions in Japanese Financial Politics (1)-Bureaupluralism in PublicPolicymaking 75
Institutions in Japanese Financial Politics (2)-The Financial "Convoy" 87
Scenarios of Financial Reform 95
Expected Economic Implications of the Big Bang 102
Background to the Big Bang Plan 102
Basic Concepts of the Financial Big Bang Plan: Principles, Pace, and Sequence 118
Concrete Policies Included in the Financial Big Bang 121
Expected Economic Consequences of the Big Bang 128
"Winners" and "Losers" of the Big Bang 132
Conclusion 147
Analysis of Financial Politics
A Political Analysis of the Emergence of the Big Bang Initiative 153
Balancing the Interests of Support Constituents and the General Public 154
Who Brought about the Big Bang? 156
Developments within MOF related to the "Big Bang" 167
Developments within the LDP related to the Big Bang 171
Summary: Who Brought about the Big Bang? 176
Organizational Level Evaluation 177
Integrating the Suborganizational and Organizational Levels of Analysis 182
Assessment against Competing Explanations 183
Conclusion 187
The Financial Industry and the Big Bang 189
Two political paths to economic reform 190
Developments following the Prime Minister's Initiative 191
Summarizing the Narrative 202
Three Previous Cases of Financial Reform 206
Comparing the Financial Big Bang to Past Financial Reforms 212
Why was the Financial Industry Unable to Stop the Big Bang? 214
Conclusion: The Big Bang as a Victory by the "Political Winners" 219
New Developments in Bureaupluralism: Comparing and Contrasting the Big Bang to the 1998 "Financial Diet" 220
New Developments in Bureaupluralism emerging out of the Financial Big Bang 221
Comparing and Contrasting the Big Bang with the Fall 1998 "Financial Diet" 224
New Patterns in Financial Policymaking 233
Public Support as a Determinant in Financial Politics 234
Comparison with Alternative Explanations 242
Conclusion 247
The Meaning of Change
Two Institutional Changes 251
Review: Conceptualizing Institutions and Characteristics of Two Key institutions in Japanese Finance 252
What Drives "Institutional Change"? Reexamining the Context of Japanese Financial Politics 255
Relating the Big Bang to Broader Changes in Finance 264
Institutional Change in Finance: Collapse of the Financial Convoy 274
Institutional Change in Public Policymaking: The Decay of Bureaupluralism 276
Conclusion 283
Conclusion 286
Insights into Regulatory Reform in Other Contexts 290
Implications for Economic Reforms in Other Policy Areas 291
Policy Implications 304
Further Issues 309
Appendix 311
References 312
Index 323
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