LEADER 04898nam 2200769 450 001 9910453291303321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-4817-2 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400848171 035 $a(CKB)2550000001139916 035 $a(EBL)1361945 035 $a(OCoLC)867926037 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001048164 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12433560 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001048164 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10997236 035 $a(PQKB)11314865 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1361945 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000159528 035 $a(OCoLC)919338545 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse43358 035 $a(DE-B1597)453937 035 $a(OCoLC)979579323 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400848171 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1361945 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10791949 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL539430 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001139916 100 $a20130524d2013 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aLobbying America $ethe politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA /$fBenjamin C. Waterhouse 205 $aCourse Book 210 1$aPrinceton, New Jersey :$cPrinceton University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (365 p.) 225 0 $aPolitics and Society in Modern America ;$v99 225 0$aPolitics and society in twentieth-century America 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-14916-X 311 $a1-306-08179-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction: American Business, American Politics --$tChapter 1. From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence --$tChapter 2. A New Life for Old Lobbies --$tChapter 3. The Birth of the Business Roundtable --$tChapter 4. Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation --$tChapter 5. The Producer versus the Consumer --$tChapter 6. Uncertain Victory --$tChapter 7. A Tale of Two Tax Cuts --$tChapter 8. Every Man His Own Lobbyist --$tEpilogue: American Politics, American Business --$tAbbreviations --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tBackmatter 330 $aLobbying America tells the story of the political mobilization of American business in the 1970's and 1980's. Benjamin Waterhouse traces the rise and ultimate fragmentation of a broad-based effort to unify the business community and promote a fiscally conservative, antiregulatory, and market-oriented policy agenda to Congress and the country at large. Arguing that business's political involvement was historically distinctive during this period, Waterhouse illustrates the changing power and goals of America's top corporate leaders. Examining the rise of the Business Roundtable and the revitalization of older business associations such as the National Association of Manufacturers and the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Waterhouse takes readers inside the mind-set of the powerful CEO's who responded to the crises of inflation, recession, and declining industrial productivity by organizing an effective and disciplined lobbying force. By the mid-1970s, that coalition transformed the economic power of the capitalist class into a broad-reaching political movement with real policy consequences. Ironically, the cohesion that characterized organized business failed to survive the ascent of conservative politics during the 1980's, and many of the coalition's top goals on regulatory and fiscal policies remained unfulfilled. The industrial CEOs who fancied themselves the "voice of business" found themselves one voice among many vying for influence in an increasingly turbulent and unsettled economic landscape. Complicating assumptions that wealthy business leaders naturally get their way in Washington, Lobbying America shows how economic and political powers interact in the American democratic system. 410 0$aPolitics and Society in Twentieth-Century America 606 $aBusiness and politics$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aCorporations$xPolitical activity$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aLobbying$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPolitical action committees$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPressure groups$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aBusiness and politics$xHistory 615 0$aCorporations$xPolitical activity$xHistory 615 0$aLobbying$xHistory 615 0$aPolitical action committees$xHistory 615 0$aPressure groups$xHistory 676 $a324/.4097309045 700 $aWaterhouse$b Benjamin C.$f1978-$01054713 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910453291303321 996 $aLobbying America$92487576 997 $aUNINA