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"Much Ado about Nothing?": Transnational Civil Society, Consumer Protection and Financial Regulatory Reform

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Kastner,  Lisa
International Max Planck Research School on the Social and Political Constitution of the Economy, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;
Max Planck Sciences Po Center on Coping with Instability in Market Societies (MaxPo), MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Kastner, L. (2014). "Much Ado about Nothing?": Transnational Civil Society, Consumer Protection and Financial Regulatory Reform. Review of International Political Economy, 21(6), 1313-1345. doi:10.1080/09692290.2013.870084.


Zitierlink: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0015-7982-7
Zusammenfassung
The literature on financial regulation has typically emphasized the role of the powerful financial industry in shaping regulatory outcomes. However, capture theories cannot explain the prominence of financial consumer protection in post-crisis reform agendas. By contrast, this article argues that, despite their collective action disadvantage, a polymorphous network of civil society organizations was able to gain momentum after the financial crisis and to influence the financial reform process. In this policy window, where decision-makers were looking out for an alternative source of expertise, a transnationally connected civil society (TCS) network successfully mobilized to place consumer protection on reform agendas in tandem with public entrepreneurs and on the back of a popular backlash against big finance. This argument will be explored through a comparative study of the impact of transnational pressures on policy-makers in Europe and the US in the immediate aftermath of the crisis. In the conclusion, the article shortly discusses the substance of the financial reforms that have been undertaken.