Quiet Politics and Business Power: Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

ISBN-13: 9780521134132 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 248 str.

Pepper D Culpepper

Opis

Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? The book looks at how companies are bought and sold.

Recenzje

'Quiet Politics and Business Power is an immensely thoughtful and stimulating book that should be read by all scholars of comparative political economy, and is of particular interest to those who wish to better understand contemporary changes in corporate governance in the industrialized world.' ILR Review

Spis treści

1. Corporate control and political salience; 2. Patient capital and markets for corporate control; 3. The managerial origins of institutional divergence in France and Germany; 4. The Netherlands and the myth of the corporatist coalition; 5. Managers, bureaucrats, and institutional change in Japan; 6. The noisy politics of executive pay; 7. Business power and democratic politics.