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

Corporate Control in Europe and Japan

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Published: October 2010
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Does democracy control business, or does business control democracy? This study of how companies are bought and sold in four countries - France, Germany, Japan, and the Netherlands - explores this fundamental question. It does so by examining variation in the rules of corporate control - specifically, whether hostile takeovers are allowed. Takeovers have high political stakes: they result in corporate reorganizations, layoffs, and the unraveling of compromises between workers and managers. But the public rarely pays attention to issues of corporate control. As a result, political parties and legislatures are largely absent from this domain. Instead, organized managers get to make the rules, quietly drawing on their superior lobbying capacity and the deference of legislators. These tools, not campaign donations, are the true founts of managerial political influence.

'... creates an important new window on the dynamics of how organized business interests operate in practice and how they interact with government. This is a carefully-researched book of interest not only to political scientists but also scholars of corporate governance. It is also sufficiently grounded in the detail of real events to be of interest to practitioners of business. ... this is a valuable and interesting book. ... This book makes an important contribution not only to the understanding of how political processes are driven, but also to the ways that corporate interests manage their survival within and around them, through a mixture of formal and informal procedures.' Comparative Labor Law and Policy Journal

Corporate control and political salience
Patient capital and markets for corporate control
The managerial origins of institutional divergence in France and Germany
The Netherlands and the myth of the corporatist coalition
Managers, bureaucrats, and institutional change in Japan
The noisy politics of executive pay
Business power and democratic politics
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ISBN: 9780521118590
ISBN-10: 052111859X
Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Audience: Tertiary; University or College
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 248
Published: October 2010
Dimensions (cm): 23.4 x 16.2  x 2.4
Weight (kg): 0.48