CIAO DATE: 10/03

Consumer Politics in Postwar Japan:
The Institutional Boundaries of Citizen Activism

Patricia L. Maclachlan

Columbia University Press

December 2001

 

Table of Contents

Front Matter and Acknowledgments(PDF format, 14 pages, 47 KB)

Introduction (PDF format, 10 pages, 44.5 KB)

Part One: Japanese Consumer Advocacy from Theoretical, Comparative, and Historical Perspectives (PDF format, 2 pages, 8 KB)

1. Toward a Framework for the Study of Consumer Advocacy (PDF format, 18 pages, 70.1 KB)

2. Consumer Advocacy in the United States and Britain (PDF format, 27 pages, 99.7 KB)

3. The Politics of an Emerging Consumer Movement: The Occupation Period (PDF format, 27 pages, 101 KB)

4. Consumer Politics Under Early One-Party Dominance: 1955 to the Late 1960s (PDF format, 26 pages, 99.3 KB)

5. The Post-1968 Consumer Protection Policymaking System and the Consumer Movement's Response (PDF format, 30 pages, 103.3 KB)

Part Two: Case Studies: The Impact of Japanese Consumer Advocacy on Policymaking (PDF format, 2 pages, 9.4 KB)

6. The Right to Choose: The Movement to Amend the Antimonopoly Law (PDF format, 32 pages, 120.4 KB)

7. The Right to Safety: The Movement to Oppose the Deregulation of Food Additives (PDF format, 26 pages, 98.4 KB)

8. The Right to Redress: The Movement to Enact a Product Liability Law (PDF format, 32 pages, 118.9 KB)

9. The Right to Be Heard: The Past, Present, and Future of the Japanese Consumer Movement (PDF format, 22 pages, 82.1 KB)

Notes (PDF format, 22 pages, 91 KB)

Bibliography (PDF format, 28 pages, 129.1 KB)

Index (PDF format, 16 pages, 60 KB)