Strength in Numbers : : The Political Power of Weak Interests /

Strength in Numbers : : The Political Power of Weak Interests / / Gunnar Trumbull.

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Many consumers feel powerless in the face of big industry's interests. And the dominant view of economic regulators (influenced by Mancur Olson's book The Logic of Collective Action, published in 1965) agrees with them. According to this view, diffuse interests like those of consumers are...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter E-BOOK GESAMTPAKET / COMPLETE PACKAGE 2012
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Trumbull, Gunnar,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (216 p.) :; 2 line illustrations, 4 graphs, 5 tables
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Chapter 1. The Political Power of Weak Interests
  • Chapter 2. Three Worlds of Consumer Protection
  • Chapter 3. Consumer Mobilization in Postwar France
  • Chapter 4. Interest Group Coalitions and Institutional Structures
  • Chapter 5. Policy Narratives and Diffuse Interest Representation
  • Chapter 6. The Limits of Regulatory Capture
  • Chapter 7. The Limits of Lobbying
  • Chapter 8. Coalitions and Collective Action
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

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