Quiet Politics and Business Power - Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

Informationen zum Autor Pepper D. Culpepper is Professor of Political Science at the European University Institute. He was previously on the faculty at the Harvard Kennedy School. He is the author of Creating Cooperation and coeditor of Changing France and The German Skills Machine. His work has appeared in International Organization, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Revue Française de Science Politique, Politische Vierteljahresschrift, West European Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy, the Journal of Public Policy, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, among others. Culpepper was a Marshall Scholar at Oxford University and received his Ph.D. in political science from Harvard University. Klappentext Does democracy control business! or does business control democracy? The book looks at how companies are bought and sold. Zusammenfassung The rules governing hostile takeovers have been fiercely contested since the 1990s! but such struggles rarely took place in parliaments. This book studies these political battles in four countries - France! Germany! Japan and the Netherlands. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Corporate control and political salience; 2. Patient capital and markets for corporate control; 3. The managerial origins of institutional divergence in France and Germany; 4. The Netherlands and the myth of the corporatist coalition; 5. Managers, bureaucrats, and institutional change in Japan; 6. The noisy politics of executive pay; 7. Business power and democratic politics.

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• Autori: Pepper D. Culpepper, Pepper D. (European University Institut Culpepper, Pepper D. (European University Institute Culpepper, CULPEPPER PEPPER D, Culpepper Pepper D.
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 22.11.2010
• EAN: 9780521118590
• ISBN: 978-0-521-11859-0
• Pagine: 248
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Economia > Singoli rami economici, branche; Japan, Europe, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Business & management, International business, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Ownership and organization of enterprises, Economics of industrial organization