Tobacco policy initiatives in Japan run in opposing directions. One stronger line is represented by industrial policy promoted established by law and overseen by the nation’s Ministry of Finance. A weaker line, lacking vigorous statutory underpinnings, emerges through administrative tobacco...

Introduction : new rules, old practices -- Money and candidate quality -- Adapting to the mixed system -- Spending and vote shares -- Party strategies and money politics -- The evolution of support groups -- The creation and costs of informal norms -- Conclusion -- Appendixes -- References --...

Confidential documents which became public through civil litigation discovery in the late 1990s reveal that, ten years after the Watergate and Lockheed scandals and just five years after the enactment of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, the senior-most executives of the Brown and...