Politics and the corporation (Elsevier JAI, 2005)
Includes bibliographical references
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
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