Varieties of political consumerism

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URL:	https://madoc.bib.uni-mannheim.de/42488
URN:	urn:nbn:de:bsz:180-madoc-424882
Dokumenttyp:	Dissertation
Erscheinungsjahr:	2016
Ort der Veröffentlichung:	Mannheim
Hochschule:	Universität Mannheim
Gutachter:	Deth, Jan W. van
Datum der mündl. Prüfung:	24 August 2016
Sprache der Veröffentlichung:	Englisch
Einrichtung:	Fakultät für Sozialwissenschaften > Politische Wissenschaft u. Internat. Vergleichende Sozialforschung (van Deth 1995-2015, Em)
Fachgebiet:	300 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie 320 Politik
Normierte Schlagwörter (SWD):	Boykott , Verbraucherverhalten , Politische Beteiligung , Corporate Social Responsibility , Umweltzeichen
Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch):	Political Consumerism , Boycotting , Buycotting , Corporate Social Responsibility , Consumer Labels , Varieties of Capitalism, Political Culture
Abstract:	There is not one type of political consumer but several, and citizens seem to make a distinction between them. But why are boycotter not automatically buycotter, and vice-versa? The dissertation investigates to what extent citizens' understanding of how cooperation between government, firms and civil society should look like influences their preferences for Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) compared to labelling schemes, and how this together influences the decision to boycott and/or to buycott. Drawing on a cross-country study of 20 European countries and a survey conducted among 1.350 individual citizens living in Germany, the study shows that boycotting and buycotting represent two opposite and yet complementary modes of political consumerism, which together constitute a process that develops in parallel and interacting with the availability of political shopping guidelines. The comparative importance of labelling schemes and CSR for political consumerism in turn varies across countries depending on the prevailing understanding of cooperation.