TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stolle,Dietlind
AU  - Micheletti,Michele
TI  - Political Consumerism: Global Responsibility in Action 
SN  - 9780511844553 (ebook)
AV  - JF799 .S687 2013
U1  - 172/.1 23
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Politics, Practical
KW  - Political participation
KW  - Political ethics
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 04 Apr 2016)
N2  - Political Consumerism captures the creative ways in which citizens, consumers and political activists use the market as their arena for politics. This book theorizes, describes, analyzes, compares and evaluates the phenomenon of political consumerism and how it attempts to use market choice to solve complex globalized problems. It investigates theoretically and empirically how and why consumers practice citizenship and have become important political actors. Dietlind Stolle and Michele Micheletti describe consumers' engagement as an example of individualized responsibility taking, examining how political consumerism nudges and pressures corporations to change their production practices, and how consumers emerge as a force in global affairs. Unlike other studies, it also evaluates if and how consumer actions become effective mechanisms of global change. Stolle and Micheletti offer a candid discussion of the limitations of political consumerism as a form of participation and as a problem-solving mechanism
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511844553
ER  -