Despite the growing body of research on consumer activism, little is understood about tourists’ digitally mediated boycott consumption behaviours in relation to pro-sustainability concerns. Drawing upon grounded political consumerism and sustainability behaviour through a constructivist theory lens via series semi-structured interviews, this study set out fill gap. Two main themes emerged from ...

Abstract We study the protest behavior of teenagers linked to a student killed by stray bullet coming from policeman in Chile. use administrative data follow schoolmates victim and those living nearby shooting hundreds non-protest days. find that police violence causes lower participation street rallies but more adherence test boycotts. These effects appear among not students killing. Negative ...

In developing countries, urban clusters of informal firms such as brick kilns and leather tanneries can create severe pollution problems. However, these firms are quite difficult to regulate for a variety of technical and political reasons. Drawing on the literature, this paper first develops a list of feasible environmental management policies. It then examines how these policies have fared in...

Environmental activists are increasingly resorting to private strategies such as boycotts and protests focused on changing individual firms’ behavior. In this paper, we examine activists’ use of such “private politics” to engender firm compliance with activist objectives. We begin by developing a simple theoretical model of an activist campaign from which we develop a set of empirical hypothese...

Screen and song celebrate social justice movements that protested in the streets when they were convinced that existing institutions and their normal procedures only reinforced the status quo. Many rights have been won in democratic societies by means of courageous activism — the eight hour day, votes for women, the right to sit at any lunch counter. Yet contemporary democratic theory rarely re...

International Labor Standards and the Political Economy of Child Labor Regulation Child labor is a persistent phenomenon in many developing countries. In recent years, support has been growing among rich-country governments and consumer groups for the use of trade policies, such as product boycotts and the imposition of international labor standards, to reduce child labor in poor countries. In ...