Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism / Edition 1

Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism / Edition 1

by Robert A. Kagan, Lee Axelrad
ISBN-10:
0520222881
ISBN-13:
9780520222885
Pub. Date:
10/02/2000
Publisher:
University of California Press
ISBN-10:
0520222881
ISBN-13:
9780520222885
Pub. Date:
10/02/2000
Publisher:
University of California Press
Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism / Edition 1

Regulatory Encounters: Multinational Corporations and American Adversarial Legalism / Edition 1

by Robert A. Kagan, Lee Axelrad

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Overview

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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780520222885
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 10/02/2000
Series: California Series in Law, Politics, and Society , #1
Edition description: First Edition
Pages: 446
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 1.10(d)

About the Author

Robert A. Kagan is Professor of Political Science and Director at the Center for the Study of Law and Society, University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Going by the Book: The Problem of Regulatory Unreasonableness (1982) and Regulatory Justice: Implementing a Wage-Price Freeze (1978).
Lee Axelrad is an attorney in private practice in Sacramento, California.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgmentsvii
1.How Much Do National Styles of Law Matter?1
Part IEnvironmental Regulation
2.Poles Apart: Industrial Waste Management Regulation and Enforcement in the United States and Japan33
3.Industrial Effluent Control in the United States and Japan64
4.Investigation and Remediation of Contaminated Manufacturing Sites in the United States, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands96
5.Siting Solid Waste Landfills: The Permit Process in California, Pennsylvania, the United Kingdom, and the Netherlands122
6.The Air Pollution Permit Process for U.S. and German Automobile Assembly Plants173
Part IILegal Rights and Litigation
7.Employee Termination Practices in the United States and Canada225
8.Credit Card Debt Collection and the Law: Germany and the United States255
9.Obtaining and Protecting Patents in the United States, Europe, and Japan275
Part IIIRegulating Product Safety
10.Licensing Biologics in Europe and the United States313
11.New Chemical Notification Laws in Japan, the United States, and the European Union341
12.The Consequences of Adversarial Legalism372
List of Contributors415
Index417
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