The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy: Silicon Valley Elites in American Politics
Autor Darren R. Halpin, Anthony J. Nownesen Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 apr 2021
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780190883003
ISBN-10: 0190883006
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 241 x 160 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
ISBN-10: 0190883006
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 241 x 160 x 36 mm
Greutate: 0.98 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP USA
Locul publicării:New York, United States
Recenzii
Halpin and Nownes map out the corporate activities and the personal engagements by some of the outsized individuals who founded and currently direct the nation's largest high-tech firms. Anyone concerned with power, influence, and the future of American democracy should read this book. It's an encyclopedia of who is doing what, and with what effect, in Washington and around the country.
This richly detailed book offers a panoramic view of the (typically) progressive political activities of the tech leaders and companies that populate Silicon Valley. In so doing, the authors challenge us to think far more expansively about elite political behavior. Beyond lobbying and making campaign donations, business leaders exercise their public voice through social media messages, move massive sums through their philanthropies to advance policy goals, and even create advocacy groups to champion important issues stuck in a gridlocked political system.
Providing a wealth of information on the leaders of our information age, The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy is a very welcome addition to the literature on business and politics. Halpin and Nownes have compiled original data on how the men and women running Silicon Valley seek to influence and bring pressure to bear on those running the country. Departing from the more conventional focus on firm political activities, this book examines the various ways those in charge distribute their efforts across the political spectrum. Companies that contribute to campaigns tend to have CEOs who contribute, but not necessarily to the same recipient. This work is empirical and contemporary, but it raises age-old issues for democratic theorists. Perhaps it gives nuance to E.E. Schattschneider's 'flaw in the pluralist heaven,' if there are liberal as well as conservative voices in the heavenly chorus?
This richly detailed book offers a panoramic view of the (typically) progressive political activities of the tech leaders and companies that populate Silicon Valley. In so doing, the authors challenge us to think far more expansively about elite political behavior. Beyond lobbying and making campaign donations, business leaders exercise their public voice through social media messages, move massive sums through their philanthropies to advance policy goals, and even create advocacy groups to champion important issues stuck in a gridlocked political system.
Providing a wealth of information on the leaders of our information age, The New Entrepreneurial Advocacy is a very welcome addition to the literature on business and politics. Halpin and Nownes have compiled original data on how the men and women running Silicon Valley seek to influence and bring pressure to bear on those running the country. Departing from the more conventional focus on firm political activities, this book examines the various ways those in charge distribute their efforts across the political spectrum. Companies that contribute to campaigns tend to have CEOs who contribute, but not necessarily to the same recipient. This work is empirical and contemporary, but it raises age-old issues for democratic theorists. Perhaps it gives nuance to E.E. Schattschneider's 'flaw in the pluralist heaven,' if there are liberal as well as conservative voices in the heavenly chorus?
Notă biografică
Darren R. Halpin is Professor of Political Science at the Australian National University in Canberra. He researches the organization of interests and interest representation in the policy process in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, and comparatively. He is co-editor of the international journal Interest Groups and Advocacy and founding director of the Policy Advocacy Lab. Anthony J. Nownes is Professor of Political Science at the University of Tennessee. His research interests include lobbying, non-profit advocacy, and celebrity politics. His latest book is Organizing for Transgender Rights.