Political Power of Business - Structure and Information in Public Policy-Making

Informationen zum Autor Patrick Bernhagen is Lecturer at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Aberdeen, UK. Zusammenfassung Investigates to what extent business can get what it wants politically as firms and trade associations have a better understanding of the likely effects of policy than politicians and because their decisions partly determine these effects. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction 2. Groups, Institutions, Networks, Ideology, or Structural Dependence: What Drives Business Power? 3. An Informational–Structural Model of Business Power 4. Two Real-World Signalling Games 5. Reputation and Informativeness in Lobbying 6. Structure, Information, and Environmental Regulation 7. Conclusions: Information, Structure, and the Prospects for Democracy under Capitalism

Product details

• Authors: Patrick Bernhagen, Patrick (University of Aberdeen Bernhagen, Bernhagen Patrick
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.12.2007
• EAN: 9780415451055
• ISBN: 978-0-415-45105-5
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics; Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, International Relations, Public Administration, Political Economy, business strategy