Civil Society and Financial Regulation: Consumer Finance Protection and Taxation After the Financial Crisis

ISBN-13: 9780367887209 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 198 str.

Lisa Kastner

Opis

Analysing four cases of reform in the post-crisis regulatory context, this book shows how building coalitions with important elite allies outside and inside government helped traditionally weak interest groups transcend a lack of material resources to influence and shape regulatory policy.

Recenzje

"Who would have thought that the financial industry sometimes has to cave in to civil society groups? In her David-against-Goliath account, Kastner does not downplay the lobbying power of the financial sector, but establishes that finance has moved from a back-room expertise to normal politics. A must-read for anybody interested in the politics of financial regulation."—Cornelia Woll, Professor of Political Sciences, Sciences Po, France

Spis treści

1. Introduction.PART I A THEORY OF FINANCIAL REGULATORY CHANGE. 2. Towards a Causal Mechanism of Post-Crisis Regulatory Reform Dynamics. PART II THE CASES. 3. Winner-Take-All Politics and Civil Society Groups: The US Consumer Regulator. 4. Policy Compromise and Civil Society Groups in Financial Regulation: EU Consumer Finance Reforms. 5. Civil Society and the Limits of Lobbying: Case Study of the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) in the US. 6. Civil Society and the Limits of Capture: Case Study of the EU FTT. 7. Conclusions.

O autorze

Lisa Kastner is a policy advisor at the Foundation for European Progressive Studies in Brussels and associated research fellow at Sciences Po Paris. Her research on the politics of financial markets in the US and the EU was awarded the Research Award by the Erasmus academic network on Parliamentary Democracy in Europe (PADEMIA) and the Otto Hahn Medal of the Max Planck Society.