The Politics of the Foundation of the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and Japanese Consumer Affairs Agency

这个项目的第一个主题是确定影响发达国家消费政治的两个不同的想法。在美国和大多数其他国家，消费者利益与环境和平等等其他公共利益是分开倡导的。另一方面，在日本，消费者利益有时与其他公共利益混为一谈。以消费政治为例，美国公共利益集团倾向于基于公共利益多元化理念追求各种“公共利益”，而日本公共利益集团则倾向于基于公共利益一元论理念追求“公共利益”。然后，这个项目探索了这两个想法如何影响美国和日本主要消费群体的组织、偏好、政策和行动。该项目试图考察两国新成立的消费者机构--美国的消费者金融保护局和日本的消费者事务机构--的消费者政治。

The first of themes of this project is to identify two distinctive ideas that affect consumer politics in advanced countries. In the U.S and most of other countries, consumer interests are advocated separately from other public interests such as environment and equality. On the other hand, in Japan, consumer interests are sometimes mixed up with other public interests. As showed in the case of consumer politics, while the U.S. public interest groups tend to pursue various "public interests" basing on the idea of public interest pluralism, Japanese public interest groups tend to pursue "the public interest" basing on the idea of public interest monism. Then this project explored how these two ideas affected the organization, preferences, policies, and action of major consumer groups in the U.S. and Japan. The project tried to examine the consumer politics of new consumer agencies in both countries, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the U.S. and Consumer Affairs Agency in Japan.