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Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism (California Series in Law, Politics, and Society)

By Robert A. Kagan , Lee Axelrad

Book information

Year
2000
ISBN
9780520222878, 9780585391212, 0520222873, 0520222881, 9780520222885
LCC
KF1419 .R44 2000
Open Library ID
OL51692M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2306967 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
440\447
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

Regulatory Encounters reports on a path-breaking study of how government regulation of business in the United States differs in practice from regulation in other economically advanced democracies. In each of ten in-depth case studies, the contributors to this volume compare a particular multinational corporation's experience with parallel regulatory regimes in the United States and in Japan, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, The Netherlands, and the European Union, noting precisely which regulatory precautions were actually implemented in each country. The regulatory systems analyzed include aspects of environmental protection, product safety, debt collection, employees' rights, and patent protection. The studies in Regulatory Encounters indicate that the adversarial and legalistic character of American regulation imposes higher costs and delays on economic activity than comparable regulatory regimes in other economically advanced democracies, and often does not generate higher levels of protection for the public.

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