With the creation of the common market, citizens of the member states became European consumers. The history of consumer governance in the EEC therefore touches upon the legitimation of European integration. In that light, this article traces the institutionalisation of consumer representation in the EEC from the 1960s to the 1990s, and connects this development with the way in which EEC institutions conceptualised the consumer interest. It shows that during the 1970s, the emerging structures for consumer governance came with representations of the consumer as a powerless figure vis-à-vis big corporations, reflecting the powerlessness of the structures of consumer governance within the EEC. Although the consumer was portrayed as a pivotal f...
Using consumer credit regulation as a case study, this book investigates how the specific legislatio...
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is n...
The significance of the consumer’s role in society has been a focus of discussion since the first qu...
With the creation of the common market, citizens of the member states became European consumers. The...
With the creation of the common market, citizens of the member states became European consumers. The...
The heightened emphasis on consumer interests reflects the deliberate aim of increasing EU citizen (...
Legal history can help to date shifts in social attitudes, because it shows how, when, and often als...
peer reviewedThe heightened emphasis on consumer interests reflects the deliberate aim of increasing...
Legal history can help to date shifts in social attitudes, because it shows how, when, and often als...
Abstract Neoliberalism constructs a particular version of consumers as existing individually and w...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Immediately after the Second World War, the word ‘consumer’ was an ill-defined signifier. By the ear...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Immediately after the Second World War, the word ‘consumer’ was an ill-defined signifier. By the ear...
Using consumer credit regulation as a case study, this book investigates how the specific legislatio...
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is n...
The significance of the consumer’s role in society has been a focus of discussion since the first qu...
With the creation of the common market, citizens of the member states became European consumers. The...
With the creation of the common market, citizens of the member states became European consumers. The...
The heightened emphasis on consumer interests reflects the deliberate aim of increasing EU citizen (...
Legal history can help to date shifts in social attitudes, because it shows how, when, and often als...
peer reviewedThe heightened emphasis on consumer interests reflects the deliberate aim of increasing...
Legal history can help to date shifts in social attitudes, because it shows how, when, and often als...
Abstract Neoliberalism constructs a particular version of consumers as existing individually and w...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Immediately after the Second World War, the word ‘consumer’ was an ill-defined signifier. By the ear...
Defence Date: 28 January 2011Examining Board: Prof. Christian Joerges, University of Bremen (Superv...
Immediately after the Second World War, the word ‘consumer’ was an ill-defined signifier. By the ear...
Using consumer credit regulation as a case study, this book investigates how the specific legislatio...
This article argues that the unprecedented prominence of consumer groups in contemporary Europe is n...
The significance of the consumer’s role in society has been a focus of discussion since the first qu...