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Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry

Autor Stan Luger
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 noi 2005
This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first book-length treatment of the power of the nation's largest industry. Drawing together the main policy issues affecting the automobile industry over the past forty years - occupant safety, emissions, fuel economy and trade - the work examines how the industry established its hegemony over the public perception of vehicle safety to inhibit federal regulation and the battle for federal regulation which succeeded in toppling this hegemony in 1966; the subsequent efforts to include pollution emissions and fuel economy under federal mandates in the 1970s; the industry's resurgence of influence in the 1980s; and the mixed pattern of influence in the 1990s. The analysis seeks to uncover factors that enhance corporate political influence, and those that constrain corporate power, allowing for public interest forces to be successful.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521023610
ISBN-10: 0521023610
Pagini: 220
Ilustrații: 1 b/w illus. 2 tables
Dimensiuni: 154 x 229 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Studying power in America; 2. The structure of the auto industry; 3. Corporate political hegemony and its decline: 1916–66; 4. The politics of compromise: 1967–78; 5. The resurgence of corporate power: 1979–81; 6. The triumph of corporate power: regulatory policy, 1981–8; 7. The triumph of corporate power: trade policy, 1981–5; 8. Interregnum: 1989–96; Conclusion: corporate power and American democracy; Index.

Recenzii

"A calm, analytic, probing, documented and riveting critique of Washington's kowtowing to Detroit, and the efforts of consumer and environmental groups, on behalf of motorists, safety and clean air, to stop the melding of this corporate state." Ralph Nader, Washington D.C.
"Stan Luger has written a first-rate study of corporate power in modern America. By dissecting the relationship of the automobile industry to government, he reveals the structural roots of business power, and also the conditions under which the grip of business on government is sometimes relaxed. Thus illuminating and nuanced study speaks directly to the political limits and possibilities of our time." Frances Fox Piven, City University of New York
"Stan Luger provides us with a rich and troubling account of the U.S. automobile industry's political power during the last half century. The evidence that he amasses forces us to consider the parallels with the tobacco industry. Will future historians group these together as 'outlaw industries' that skillfully used political power to avert effective regulation of dangerous products?" Fred Block, University of California, Davis
"...a scholarly study of the history of the power and influence of the automobile industry on governmental policies and the interactions of government, automobile industry, and societal pressures...the author does a creditable job of presenting the material. For readers interested in policymaking with respect to the automobile industry, it is a jolly good read." The Flying Lady, Rolls-Royce Owners' Club.

Descriere

A critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry, assessing the impact of the large corporation on American democracy.