Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 416 g
How Corporations Became Politicized and Politics Became More Corporate
Buch, Englisch, 288 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 416 g
Reihe: Studies in Postwar American Political Development
ISBN: 978-0-19-067743-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press
what corporations do in Washington, why they do it, and why it matters. Since the 1970s, a wave of new government regulations and declining economic conditions has mobilized business leaders, and companies have developed new political capacities. Managers soon began to see public policy as an opportunity, not
just a threat. Ever since, corporate lobbying has become more pervasive, more proactive, and more particularistic. Lee Drutman argues that lobbyists drove this development by helping managers see the importance of politics and how proactive and aggressive engagement could help companies' bottom lines. Politics is messy, unpredictable, and more competitive than ever, but the growth of lobbying has driven several important changes that have increased the power of business in American politics.
And now, the costs of effective lobbying have risen to a level that only larger businesses can typically afford. Lively and engaging, rigorous and nuanced, this will change how we think about lobbying-and how we might reform it.