Information, Choice and Political Consumption: Human Rights in the Checkout Lane

Scruggs, Lyle; Hertel, Shareen; Best, Samuel J.; Jeffords, Christopher

doi:10.1353/hrq.2011.0062

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“…These results are similar to many earlier studies as regards gender (e.g., Koos, 2012;Neilson and Paxton, 2010;Tobiasen, 2005), education (e.g., Berlin, 2011;Ferrer-Fons and Fraile, 2014;Neilson, 2010;Strømsnes, 2005), living area (e.g., Sandovici and Davis, 2010;Strømsnes, 2005), political orientation (e.g., Sandovici and Davis, 2010;Strømsnes, 2005), and donating (Strømsnes, 2005;Tobiasen, 2005), and corroborate earlier findings by suggesting that ethical concerns (Scruggs et al, 2011) play a role in political consumption.…”

Section: Who Are the Buycotting And Boycotting Consumers?supporting

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“…Studies in the North and South America and Europe have suggested that low trust in institutions and politics (Echegaray, 2015;Neilson and Paxton, 2010;Scruggs et al, 2011;Tobiasen, 2005;Zhang, 2015) are associated with political consumption. In Neilson's European-wide study (2010), political consumers had lower trust in institutions than non-political consumers (see also Koos, 2012), while Berlin (2011) found in his study in Sweden that low trust in "state performance" in advancing sustainability and high trust in "governmental sustainability institutions" (i.e., environmental agencies and the consumer agency) were associated with political consumption.…”

Section: Explaining Political Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Taking a Stand through Food Choices? Characteristics of Political Food Consumption and Consumers in Finland

Niva

Jallinoja

2018

Ecological Economics

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This study looks at food as a realm of political consumption by examining buycotting and boycotting of foods for ethical, political or environmental reasons in Finland. The results of an Internet-based survey (N=1,021) showed that around half of the respondents often or occasionally both buycotted and boycotted foods. Multinomial regression models indicated that women, the highly educated, the political left, those who donated for charity, those whose food choices were motivated by domestic origin and ethical food production, and those who trusted that consumption choices, institutional actors and the media can advance ethical food production and consumption, were most likely to be active in buycotting and boycotting. Buycotters/boycotters were very active in buying local food but less eager, for instance, to buy organic or Fair Trade products or to reduce the use of meat or milk. The article concludes by critically assessing the complex relationship between buycotting/boycotting and sustainable practices and suggesting that consumers may be more willing to transform their eating patterns if other societal actors, too, make an effort to influence ethical food consumption.

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Taking a Stand through Food Choices? Characteristics of Political Food Consumption and Consumers in Finland

Niva

Jallinoja

2018

Ecological Economics

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“…Another limitation of the political consumerism literature is its methodological approach, which is heavily based on survey research (Newman and Bartels, 2011;Scruggs et al, 2011;Shah et al, 2007;Strømsnes, 2009). The inflexibility of surveys make it difficult to gain a more nuanced understanding of political consumer meaning-making, specifically as it relates to consumers intersecting social locations such as race, class, and gender.…”

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Intersectional political consumerism: Re-examining consumer strategies of The Woodlawn Organization and Jobs or Income Now during the Chicago Welfare Rights Era

Brown

2018

Journal of Consumer Culture

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The study utilizes 18 archival primary source collections related to the Welfare Rights Movement, using both open and focused coding to perform content analysis of 3300 documents. By extending Zygmunt Bauman’s theory of the “flawed consumer” to incorporate intersectionality, this article offers an intersectional analysis of political consumerism, which reveals two dimensions of political consumerism: (1) community-based and (2) commercial-based. Findings reveal that while Black, male-dominated capitalist-promoting welfare organizations such as The Woodlawn Organization employed commercial-based intersectional political consumerism, predominantly White, female-led socialist organizations such as Jobs or Income Now preferred community-based intersectional political consumerism. This re-conceptualization of intersectional political consumerism within the Welfare Rights Movement better considers the role of intersectionality in the strategy decision-making of the movement organizations and as such provides a more thorough explanation of the political consumerist strategies of those participating in the Welfare Rights Movement.

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“…Products which are manufactured in environmentally damaging ways impose not only negative externalities via pollution, for example, but also invoke normative concerns for the environment. Previous research has documented the sociodemographic characteristics that drive individuals to stop purchasing products for broader environmental concerns (Scruggs et al, 2011), or to start purchasing ethically manufactured products (Starr, 2009). These are actions consumers take to affect environmental and social outcomes and are best described as ethical consumption behaviors.…”

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Preference-directed regulation when ethical environmental policy choices are formed with limited information

Jeffords

2013

Empir Econ

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Preference-directed regulation (PDR) can supplement traditional environmental policies through frequent regulatory revision (Livermore, 2007). Stakeholders can use PDR to garner popular support for a specific policy. By providing individuals with information that augments their opinions about the effectiveness of a policy at driving environmental outcomes, stakeholders can induce preference switching in favor of or in detriment to a specific policy. This paper documents the extent to which this is true using cross-sectional data from an original national survey where individuals were asked to choose one of three policies aimed at reducing the number of products manufactured in environmentally damaging ways. Proxies for policy-specific opinions about the effectiveness of each policy are extracted from the data and form the central focus of inducing preference switching. PDR is operationalized by exogenously augmenting individual opinions via counterfactual simulations within a limited information discrete choice model. The results demonstrate that the extent of preference switching depends not only on the relative change in opinion for a specific policy, but that different forms of PDR may be more effective at inducing preference switching. The substitution patterns arising from the counterfactual simulations are further explained by analytically demonstrating the mitigation of the Independence of Irrelevant Alternatives property endemic to traditional multinomial choice models (i.e., full information). Additional empirical results are documented by comparing the results to a full information model, including downward bias in mean utility levels and individual-level preference switching across the limited and full information conditional choice utilities.

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Information, Choice and Political Consumption: Human Rights in the Checkout Lane

Cited by 11 publications

References 38 publications

Taking a Stand through Food Choices? Characteristics of Political Food Consumption and Consumers in Finland

Taking a Stand through Food Choices? Characteristics of Political Food Consumption and Consumers in Finland

Intersectional political consumerism: Re-examining consumer strategies of The Woodlawn Organization and Jobs or Income Now during the Chicago Welfare Rights Era

Preference-directed regulation when ethical environmental policy choices are formed with limited information

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