American Business and Political Power - Public Opinion, Elections, and Democracy

List of Tables and FiguresAcknowledgments1. Introduction2. Business Unity and Its Consequences for Representative Democracy3. Identifying Business Unity4. A Portrait of Unifying Issues5. Public Opinion, Elections, and Lawmaking6. Overt Sources of Business Power7. Structural Sources of Business Power8. The Role of Business in Shaping Public Opinion9. The Compatibility of Business Unity and Popular SovereigntyAppendix AAdditional Coding Rules Used to Uncover Positions of the U.S. Chamber of CommerceAppendix BThe Potential for Feedback between Policy and OpinionReferencesIndex

About the author

Mark A. Smith is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington.

Summary

Most people believe that large corporations wield enormous political power when they lobby for policies as a cohesive bloc. With this work, the author sets conventional wisdom on its head. He states that business loses in legislative battles unless it has public backing.

Product details

• Authors: Mark Smith, Mark A. Smith
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2000
• EAN: 9780226764641
• ISBN: 978-0-226-76464-1
• No. of pages: 245
• Dimensions: 228 mm x 153 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 396 g
• Series: Studies in Communication, Medi; Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion; Studies in Communication, Media & Public Opinion (CHUP); Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion (CHUP); Studies in Communication, Media, and Public Opinion
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political theories and the history of ideas