Competition Law Reform In Britain And Japan
As market competition replaces state regulation in many economic fields, competition policy has become an area of increasing significance. Against this background, Suzuki highlights the importance of the domestic political structure for competition policy. He does this through the comparative analysis of competition law reforms in Britain and Japan. He argues - controversially - that a country's domestic political structure should be considered a major factor in causing the reform of...
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As market competition replaces state regulation in many economic fields, competition policy has become an area of increasing significance. Against this background, Suzuki highlights the importance of the domestic political structure for competition policy. He does this through the comparative analysis of competition law reforms in Britain and Japan. He argues - controversially - that a country's domestic political structure should be considered a major factor in causing the reform of competition law, and rejects the established view that it is necessarily a result of changes in international economic and political conditions.
List of illustrationsPrefaceList of abbreviations1Introduction: international convergence and policy network of competition law12Early history and cases of invention-type policy innovation in the 1970s93Actor interests and cohesion in the competition policy network of the 1970s284Distribution of power resources in the competition policy network of the 1970s595External changes and the reform of British and Japanese competition law in the 1990s826Interests of the core actors in the competition policy network of the 1990s1047Changes in the distribution of power resources from the 1970s to the 1990s1318Conclusion: the reform of competition law and development of the competition policy network in Britain and Japan155Notes168Bibliography187Index199
