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Consumer politics in Postwar Japan : the institutional boundries of citizen activism /
Providing comparisons to the United States and Britain, this book examines Japan's postwar consumer protection movement. Organized largely by and for housewives and spurred by major cases of price gouging and product contamination, the movement led to the passage of basic consumer protection le...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Columbia University Press,
©2002.
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| Colección: | Studies of the East Asian Institute.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part 1. Japanese Consumer Advocacy from Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives
- 1. Toward a Framework for the Study of Consumer Advocacy
- 2. Consumer Advocacy in the United States and Britain
- 3. The Politics of an Emerging Consumer Movement: The Occupation Period
- 4. Consumer Politics Under Early One-Party Dominance: 1955 to the Late 1960s
- 5. The Post-1968 Consumer Protection Policymaking System and the Consumer Movement's Response
- Part 2. Case Studies: The Impact of Japanese Consumer Advocacy on Policymaking
- 6. The Right to Choose: The Movement to Amend the Antimonopoly Law
- 7. The Right to Safety: The Movement to Oppose the Deregulation of Food Additives
- 8. The Right to Redress: The Movement to Enact a Product Liability Law
- 9. The Right to Be Heard: The Past, Present, and Future of the Japanese Consumer Movement
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.