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Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA / / Benjamin C. Waterhouse



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Autore: Waterhouse Benjamin C. <1978-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Lobbying America : the politics of business from Nixon to NAFTA / / Benjamin C. Waterhouse Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , 2013
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (365 p.)
Disciplina: 324/.4097309045
Soggetto topico: Business and politics - United States - History - 20th century
Corporations - Political activity - United States - History - 20th century
Lobbying - United States - History - 20th century
Political action committees - United States - History - 20th century
Pressure groups - United States - History - 20th century
Soggetto non controllato: American big business
American business leaders
American business
American democracy
American political culture
Arch Booth
Business Roundtable
Carter administration
Chrysler bailout
Cold War
Consumer Protection Agency
Democrats
John Connally
National Association of Manufacturers
New Deal
Progressive period
Ralph Nader
Reagan administration
Republicans
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
U.S. Congress
antistatists
business community
business leaders
business lobbying
business theorists
business
chief executive officers
class-oriented battles
conservative activists
consumer perspective
consumer protection
consumerism
corporate lobbying
crisis of confidence
economic actors
economic crisis
economic power
employment equality
federal budget
finance
free market
global capitalism
global outsourcing
high finance
industrial economy
industrial lobbyists
industrial manufacturing
industrialists
inflation
legal construct
liberal consensus
liberalism
lobbying firms
lobbying operation
modern corporation
neoliberal doctrine
neoliberal political culture
neoliberalism
organized labor
pan-business lobbying
party politics
policymaking
political mobilization
political power
politics
power structure
price instability
productivity growth
progressive politics
public interest liberalism
regulatory apparatus
small-government conservatives
stagflation
tax cuts
taxation
unionization
wage-price controls
workplace regulations
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: American Business, American Politics -- Chapter 1. From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence -- Chapter 2. A New Life for Old Lobbies -- Chapter 3. The Birth of the Business Roundtable -- Chapter 4. Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation -- Chapter 5. The Producer versus the Consumer -- Chapter 6. Uncertain Victory -- Chapter 7. A Tale of Two Tax Cuts -- Chapter 8. Every Man His Own Lobbyist -- Epilogue: American Politics, American Business -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Backmatter
Sommario/riassunto: Lobbying 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Lobbying America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-4008-4817-2
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910824956403321
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Serie: Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America