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Politics and the corporation /
Focuses on the ways in which corporations exercise political power, and how changes in the political-legal arrangements in which corporations are embedded affect their organizational behavior. This volume examines the historical and dialectical relationship between the corporation and the state.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
| Publicado: |
Amsterdam ; Boston :
Elsevier JAI,
2005.
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| Colección: | Research in political sociology ;
v. 14. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Politics and the Corporation
- Contents
- List of Contributors
- Editorial Board
- Special Reviewers
- Preface
- Introduction: Politics and the Corporation
- Introduction: Politics and the Corporation
- Corporate Politics and Social Policy
- Corporate Politics and Business Policy
- Corporate Politics and Labor Policies
- Conclusion
- Notes
- References
- Part I: Corporate Politics and Social Policy
- Privatization and Low-Income Housing in the United States Since 1986
- Introduction
- Data and Methods
- Theoretical Issues
- The Case: The Transformation of Low-Income Housing Development
- A Political History of the Lihtc
- Background Conditions and Institutions
- The Emergence of the LIHTC
- Interest Groups
- Selectivity and the LIHTC
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- References
- No Room for Compromise: Business Interests and the Politics of Health care Reform
- Introduction
- Business, Politics, and Health Policy in an Era of Retrenchment
- Intra-Class Conflicts and Political Realignment in the Health Care Field
- Business Coalitions and Health Care Reform: 1990-1992
- Intra-Class Conflicts of Interest
- Early Corporate Activism: The Washington Business Group on Health
- The National Leadership Coalition for Health Care Reform
- The Chamber of Commerce and Health Care Reform
- Organizing Resistance: The NFIB and the Formation of HEAL
- The Jackson Hole Group and the Emergence of ''Managed Competition''
- Conservative Democrats and ''Managed Competition''
- The ''Liberal'' Version of Managed Competition and the Clinton Plan
- The Clinton Campaign: A ''New Democrat'' Middle-Way
- The Politics of Policy Formation in 1993
- Unveiling the Clinton Plan
- Initial Reaction to the Clinton Plan by Major Business Organizations
- Reaction of the Hard Opposition: The HIAA and NFIB
- The HIAA Offensive
- The Role of the NFIB
- Congressional Reaction to the Clinton Plan
- Big Business ''Abandons'' The Clinton Plan: February 1994
- Reversal of the Chamber of Commerce
- Rejection by the Business Roundtable
- Not Health Costs, but ''Big Government, '' as the Enemy
- The Demise of Health Care Reform: February to September 1994
- ''Grassroots'' Pressure and Political Stalemate: The Energy and Commerce Committee
- Conservative Democrats and the Senate Finance Committee
- Business Unity and the End of the Reform Effort
- Discussion: The Changing Trajectory of Corporate Political Interests
- Corporate Ambivalence over Health Care Reform
- The Effect of the ''Hard Opposition''
- A ''Market'' Solution? The Ideological Role of ''Managed Competition''
- The ''Reconstruction'' of Business Interests, 1993-1994
- Conclusion: The Return of ''Business Unity''
- Notes
- References
- Part II: Corporate Politics and.