Corporations and American Democracy

Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today's policy debates.

About the author

Naomi R. Lamoreaux is Stanley B. Resor Professor of Economics and History at Yale University.William J. Novak is the author of the prizewinning The People’s Welfare: Law and Regulation in Nineteenth-Century America and coeditor of Corporations and American Democracy and The Democratic Experiment. He is Charles F. and Edith J. Clyne Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School.Jonathan Levy is Associate Professor of History at the University of Chicago.

Summary

Recent Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked disagreement about the role of corporations in American democracy. Bringing together scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides essential grounding for today’s policy debates.

Report

This is a stellar work that sets out a sophisticated and cutting-edge take on the story of the corporation. The essays do not just tell the story: the writers back it up by providing substantial accumulations of data and historical material. The result is a volume that is a vastly important contribution to the field. It will instantly become the go-to one-volume treatment of the history of the corporation in the United States.

-- John Fabian Witt, author of Lincoln's Code: The Laws of War in American History
Corporations and American Democracy explains crucial dimensions of how business has shaped our politics. As we confront serious challenges to democratic norms, this collection of trenchant essays provides scholars, decision-makers, and citizens with indispensable historical perspective on current dilemmas and policy options.
-- Edward J. Balleisen, author of Fraud: An American History from Barnum to Madoff

Product details

• Authors: Naomi R Lamoreaux, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, Naomi R. Novak Lamoreaux, William J. Novak
• Assisted by: Naomi R Lamoreaux (Editor), Naomi R. Lamoreaux (Editor), Lamoreaux Naomi R. (Editor), William J Novak (Editor), William J. Novak (Editor), Novak William J. (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.03.2017
• EAN: 9780674972285
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97228-5
• No. of pages: 528
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, History, LAW / Legal History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Corporate & Business History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Government & Business, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, HISTORY / United States / General, Political science & theory, Legal History, Political science and theory, corporations, Corporate governance & responsibilities