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Japanese Civil Society in the Age of Deregulation: The Case of Consumers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 November 2002

Patricia L. Maclachlan
Patricia L. Maclachlan
Affiliation:
Department of Asian Studies, University of Texas at Austin
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Abstract

Although scholars have long been interested in the relationships among civil society, the state and the market in advanced industrial democracies, the implications of state disengagement from the affairs of private firms for civil society have yet to be explored in the contemporary literature. My purpose in this essay has been to address this issue by examining the effects of deregulation on Japanese consumer society, paying particular attention to how legislative and bureaucratic changes in the wake of regulatory reform have affected consumer relations with business and, more significantly, state actors.

Type
Research Article
Information
Japanese Journal of Political Science , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , November 2002 , pp. 217 - 242
Copyright
© 2002 Cambridge University Press

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