Business, Politics, and Society An Anglo-American Comparison

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Copyright: 10/11/2009

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How much power does business exercise in Britain and the United States? Are giant firms that operate on a global scale beyond the control of elected governments? Are political parties in the pocket of business interests?

List of Boxes	p. 7
List of Abbreviations	p. 9
Preface	p. 11
Acknowledgements	p. 15
Studying Business and Politics	p. 1
Comparing business politics	p. 1
Business power and democratic politics	p. 3
Models of capitalism and business power	p. 7
Policy issues and the power of business	p. 11
Capitalism, democracy, and the power of business	p. 16
The History of Business and Politics	p. 18
Paths to the present	p. 18
The United Kingdom: business, oligarchies, and democracy	p. 20
The United States: business, Populism, and democracy	p. 28
Varieties of capitalism and varieties of democracy	p. 37
Organizing Business	p. 40
Business collective action and the politics of the firm	p. 40
The United Kingdom: fragmentation and firm autonomy	p. 42
The United States: organizing business under decentralized government	p. 50
Business lobbying and the crisis of the business system	p. 59
Politics and the Giant Multinational Corporation	p. 61
Why giant firms matter politically	p. 61
The giant firm and politics in the United Kingdom: the transformation of a private political world	p. 63
The giant firm and American politics: great strengths and great weaknesses	p. 70
The giant firm and global economic lobbying: the problem of strategic cohesion	p. 77
The essentially political character of the giant corporation	p. 82
Small business and politics	p. 83
Small business, collective action, and political innovation	p. 83
Small-business politics in the United Kingdom: decline and revival?	p. 86
The United States: small business in a benign environment?	p. 95
Political innovation and political weakness in the small-business sector	p. 104
Business Politics and Party Politics	p. 106
Business, parties, and democracy	p. 106
Business and party politics in the United Kingdom: the rise of a business-friendly party system	p. 108
The United States: regulating the party-business connection	p. 117
The travails of business-friendly parties	p. 127
Business, Politics, and Society	p. 129
Understanding the cultural setting of business	p. 129
TheUnited Kingdom: the transformation of a hegemonic order	p. 132
The United States: between Gramsci and Schumpeter	p. 140
From hegemony to pluralism	p. 149
Restless Democracy and Restless Capitalism	p. 151
Economic change and the politics of business representation	p. 151
Restless democracy and business politics	p. 151
Restless capitalism and business politics	p. 152
Business, democracy, and legitimacy	p. 159
Business power and the Anglo-American model of capitalism	p. 164
Bibliography	p. 173
Index	p. 191
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