Quiet Politics and Business Power

Quiet Politics and Business Power
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 246
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ISBN-10 : 9781139491853
ISBN-13 : 1139491857
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Book Synopsis Quiet Politics and Business Power by : Pepper D. Culpepper

Download or read book Quiet Politics and Business Power written by Pepper D. Culpepper and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-22 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs and the unraveling of compromises between workers and managers. But the public rarely pays attention to issues of corporate control. As a result, political parties and legislatures are largely absent from this domain. Instead, organized managers get to make the rules, quietly drawing on their superior lobbying capacity and the deference of legislators. These tools, not campaign donations, are the true founts of managerial political influence.


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