NDLI: Alternative Regulatory Cases Challenging Consumer Policy

Content Provider	Springer Nature Link
Author	Repo, Petteri Timonen, Päivi Zilliacus, Kim
Copyright Year	2009
Abstract	By means of the concept of postmodern politics, we provide insights into how alternative regulation is challenging consumer policy. New actors, new forms of interaction, and new goals are emerging alongside established forms of consumer policy. In particular, we examine two alternative regulatory cases: trust marks and consumer-generated information systems. They both exemplify alternative regulation of electronic commerce, which has facilitated regulatory innovation for over a decade. On the basis of our analysis, we suggest that governmental consumer policy cannot imitate the alternative regulatory solutions. We also encourage governmental actors to consider building bridges to consumer networks. This would broaden the scope of consumer policy and be in line with the modes of operation of governmental actors. Consumers are themselves contributing to this rethinking of governmental consumer policy. By networking, consumers provide each other with empowering information on consumption. Doing so on the massive scale enabled by information and communication technologies, they are challenging conventional consumer policy, which can no longer address consumer needs as it could in the pre-Internet days. New issues are emerging for consumer policy to address, and networked consumers are already contributing to policy.
Starting Page	289
Ending Page	301
Page Count	13
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01687034
Journal	Journal of Consumer Policy
Volume Number	32
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15730700
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2009-10-02
Publisher Place	Boston
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Consumer policy Information and communication technologies Consumer networks Self-regulation Postmodern politics Commercial Law Economic Policy Marketing Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Economics and Econometrics Business, Management and Accounting

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1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
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