Political Science Perspectives on Business and Government
40 Pages Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last revised: 28 Jul 2010
Date Written: 2010
Abstract
Four debates have been generated in the political science literature on business and government. One is the Lindblom thesis about structural business power. A second is about whether business has enjoyed unfair advantages in politics. A third is concerned with whether business-government relations can lead to suboptimal public policy. A fourth variant is that the state dominates business-government relations. Over time firms have become more sophisticated in their approaches to politics. Variations in their approaches can be analysed in terms of a number of structural variables, but what is still lacking and still needed is a political science theory of the firm. Crises in capitalism can lead to new forms of government-business relations.
Keywords: Firm, government, business, capitalism, public policy
JEL Classification: D21
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