The Study of Business and Politics

California Management Review

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 146-165

  Vogel, David J ^a  

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1. Robert Dahl, “Business and Politics: A Critical Appraisal of Political Science,” in Social Science Research on Business: Product and Potential (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1959), p. 3.
2. The best-known work in the power-elite tradition is G. William Domhoff, Who Rules America? (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976).
3. The most influential Marxist study of business power is Ralph Miliband, The State in Capitalist Society (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1969).
4. For a more popular version of this general argument, see Morton Mintz and Jerry Cohen, America, Inc. (New York, NY: The Dial Press, 1991).
5. For a summary and empirical assessment, see Harold Kerbo and L. Richard Delia Fave, “The Empirical Side of the Power Elites Debate: an Assessment and Critique of Recent Research,” The Sociological Quarterly, 20/1 (Winter 1979): 5-22.
6. See also, Michael Reagan, The Managed Economy (London: Oxford University Press, 1963).
7. For a defense of pluralism that focuses on the political role and influence of business, see Edwin Epstein, The Corporation in American Politics (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1969).
8. Charles Lindblom, Politics and Markets (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1977).
9. See, for example, Edward Greenberg, Capitalism and the American Political Ideal (Armonk, NY: M.E. Sharpe, 1985)
10. Michael Schwartz, ed., The Structure of Power in America (New York, NY: Holmes and Meier, 1987)
11. Dan Clawson, Allan Neustadtl, and Denise Scott, Money Talks (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1992).
12. For critical assessments of Lindblom, see Dennis P. Quinn, “Investment Incentives: A Five Country Test of the Lindblom Hypothesis,” in Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 10 (JAI Press, 1988), pp. 87-111
13. David Marsh “Interest Group Activity and Structural Power: Lindblom's Politics and Markets,” Western European Politics, 6/2 (April 1983): 2-13.
14. For analyses that place Lindblom in the context of the debate over corporate power, see Lawrence B. Joseph, “Corporate Political Power & Liberal Democratic Theory,” Polity, 15 (1982-1983): 246-267
15. L.G. Bykerk, “Business Power in Washington: The Insurance Exception,” Policy Studies Review, 11/3-4 (1992): 259-279
16. David Jacobs, “Radical Models of the Business-Government Relationship,” Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy, Vol. 7 (Greenwich: JAI Press, 1985), pp. 1-23.
17. For an important theoretical analysis of some of the implications of Lindblom's work for American democracy, see Stephen L. Elkin, “The Political Theory of American Business,” Business in the Contemporary World, 1/3 (Spring 1989): 25-37.
18. See, for example, Dennis Quinn and Robert Shapiro, “Business Political Power: The Case of Taxation,” American Political Science Review, 85/3 (September 1991): 851-874
19. Duane Swank, “Politics and the Structural Dependence of the State in Democratic Capitalist Nations,” American Political Science Review, 86/1 (March 1992): 38-55
20. David Jacobs, “Corporate Economic Power and the State: A Longitudinal Assessment of Two Explanations,”American Journal of Sociology, 83/4 (January 1988): 852-881.
21. For an earlier effort, see Lester Salamon and John Siegfried, “Economic Power and Political Influence: The Impact of Industry Structure on Public Policy,” American Political Science Review, 71 (December 1977): 1026-1043.
22. Raymond Bauer, Ithiel De Sola Pool, and Lewis Dexter, American Business and Public Policy (Chicago, IL: Aldine Atherton, 1963).
23. Karl Schriftgiesser, Business and Public Policy: The Role of the Committee for Economic Development: 1942-1967 (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1976).
24. Peter Bachrach and Morton Baritz, Power and Poverty: Theory and Practice (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1970).
25. For research on the timing, causes, and significance of this mobilization, see Cathie Jo Martin, “Business and the New Economic Activism,” Polity (Fall 1994), pp. 49-76
26. Patrick Akard, “Corporate Mobilization and Political Power: The Transformation of U.S. Economic Policy in the 1970s,” American Sociological Review, 57 (October 1992): 597-615.
27. See, for example, Alfred Marcus, Allen Kaufman, David Beam, eds., Business Strategy and Public Policy (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 1987)
28. Robert Miles, Coffin Nails and Corporate Strategies (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1982)
29. Mike Ryan, Carl Swanson, and Rogene Buchholz, Corporate Strategy, Public Policy and the Fortune 500 (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1987)
30. Sar Levitan and Martha Cooper, Business Lobbies (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984)
31. Graham Wilson, Business and Politics (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House, 1985)
32. Michael Useem, The Inner Circle; Large Corporations and the Rise of Business Political Activity in the U.S. and the U.K. (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1984).
33. Books on business and PACs include Edward Handler and John Mulkern, Business in Politics: Campaign Strategies of Corporate Political Action Committees (New York, NY: Lexington Books, 1982)
34. Theodore Eismeier and Philip Pollock III, Business, Money and the Rise of Corporate PACs in American Elections (New York, NY: Quorum Books, 1988)
35. Mark Mizruchi, The Structure of Corporate Political Action (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992). During the past fifteen years, more articles have been published in political science journals on PACs than on any other aspect of business political activity. See Dinna Evans, “Oil PACs and Aggressive Contribution Strategies,” Journal of Politics, 50 (November 1988): 1047-1056
36. David Gopoian, “What Makes PACs Tick? An Analysis of the Allocation Pattern of Economic Interest Groups,” American Journal of Political Science, 28 (May 1984): 181-259
37. Kevin Grier, Michael Munger, and Brian Roberts, “The Determinants of Industry Political Activity, 1978-1986,” American Political Science Review, 88/4 (December 1994): 911-926
38. Richard Hall and Frank Wayman, “Buying Time: Money Interests and the Mobilization of Bias in Congressional Committees,” American Political Science Review, 84 (September 1990): 797-820
39. Craig Humphries, “Corporations, PACS and the Strategic Link between Contributions and Lobbying Activities,” Western Political Quarterly, 44 (June 1991): 353-372
40. Laura Langbein, “Money and Access: Some Empirical Evidence,” Journal of Politics, 48 (November 1986): 1052-1062
41. Marick Masters and Gerald Keim, “Determinants of PAC Participation among Large Corporations,” Journal of Politics, 47 (November 1985): 1158-1173
42. John Wright, “PACs, Contributions, and Roll Calls: An Organizational Perspective,” American Political Science Review, 19 (1985): 400-414
43. John Wright “PAC Contributions, Lobbying, and Representation,” Journal of Politics, 51 (August 1984): 713-729
44. John Wright, “Contributions, Lobbying, and Committee Voting in the U.S. House of Representatives,” American Political Science Review, 84 (June 1990): 417-438
45. Craig Humphries, “Corporations, PACs and the Strategic Link Between Corporations and Lobbying Activities,” Western Political Quarterly, 44/2 (June 1991): 353-372.
46. For articles on corporate PACs by sociologists, see Val Burris, “The Political Partisanship of American Business: A Study of Corporate Political Action Committees, American Sociological Review, 52 (December 1987): 732-744
47. Alan Neutstadl and Dan Clawson, “Corporate Political Groupings: Does Ideology Unify Business Political Behavior?” American Sociological Review, 53 (April 1988): 172-190
48. Dan Clawson and Alan Neustadtl, “Interlocks, PACs, and Corporate Conservatism,” American Journal of Sociology, 94 (January 1989): 749-773
49. John Boies, “Money, Business and the State: Material Interests, Fortune 500 Corporations, and the Size of Political Action Committees,” American Sociological Review, 54 (October 1989): 821-833.
50. Bauer, Pool, E.E. Schattachneider, Politics, Pressure and the Tariff (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1935).
51. See, for example, Judith Goldstein, Ideas, Interests and American Trade Policy, (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1993)
52. Helen V. Milner, Resisting Protectionism: Global Industries and the Politics of International Trade (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1988).
53. See, for example, James Q. Wilson, ed., The Politics of Regulation (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1980)
54. Richard Harris and Sidney Milkis, The Politics of Regulatory Change (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1989).
55. On environmental policy, see James Lester, ed., Environmental Politics and Policy (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1989)
56. Charles O. Jones, Clean Air (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1975)
57. Walter Rosenbaum, Environmental Politics and Policy (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1994).
58. On economic (de) regulation, see Martha Derthick and Paul Quirk, The Politics of Deregulation (Washington D.C.: Brookings Institution, 1985).
59. On tax policy, seeJohn Witte, The Politics and Development of the Federal Income Tax (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1985)
60. Cathie Jo Martin, Shifting the Burden (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1991).
61. On energy policy, seeRichard Vietor, Energy Policy in America Since 1945 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984)
62. M. Elizabeth Sanders, The Regulation of Natural Gas (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1981).
63. On the dynamics of the political agenda, see John Kingdon, Agendas, Alternatives, and Public Policies (New York, NY: HarperCollins, 1984)
64. Frank Baumgartner and Bryan Jones, Agendas and Instability in American Politics (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 1993).
65. On interest groups, seeJack L. Walker, Mobilizing Interest Groups in America: Patrons, Professions, and Social Movements (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1991)
66. Robert Salisbury, Interests and Institutions: Substance and Structure in American Politics (Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992)
67. Kay Scholzman and Mark Petracca, ed., The Politics of Interests: Interest Groups Transformed (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1992)
68. Graham Wilson, Interest Groups in the United States (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1981).
69. For articles on this subject, seeKay Lehman Schlozman and John T. Tierney, “More of the Same: Washington Pressure Group Activity in a Decade of Change,” Journal of Politics, 45 (1983): 351-377
70. Kay Lehman Schlozman, “What Accent the Heavenly Chorus? Political Equality and the American Pressure System,” Journal of Politics, 46/4 (November 1984): 1006-1032.
71. See Jeffrey Berry, Lobbying for the People (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1977)
72. Andrew McFarland, Public Interest Lobbies (Washington D.C. American Enterprise Institute, 1977).
73. Andrew Shonfeld, Modern Capitalism: The Changing Balance of Public and Private Power (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1965).
74. See, for example, Peter Katzenstein, ed., Between Power and Plenty (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1978)
75. John Zysman, Governments, Markets and Growth: Financial Systems and the Politics of Industrial Change (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1983).
76. See, for example, John Ikenberry, David Lake, and Michael Mastanduno, eds., The State and American Foreign Economic Policy (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988)
77. John Ikenberry, Reasons Of State: Oil Politics and the Capacities of American Government (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988)
78. Chalmers Johnson, ed., The Industrial Policy Debate (San Francisco, CA: ICS Press, 1984)
79. Otis Graham, Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992)
80. Stephen Wilks and Maurice Wright, eds., Comparative Government-Industry Relations: Western Europe, the United States, and Japan (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
81. See Graham Wilson, Business and Politics (Chatham, NJ: Chatham House Publishers, 1985)
82. Tom Bottomore and Robert J. Brym, The Capitalist Class: An International Study (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1989)
83. Mark S. Mirzuchi and Michael Schwartz, eds., Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987).
84. For an excellent cross-national survey of business political activity which does not include the United States, see M.P.C.M Van Schendelen and R.J. Jackson, eds., The Politicisation of Business in Western Europe (London: Croom Helm, 1987).
85. See Earl Cheit, ed., The Business Establishment (New York, NY: John Wiley, 1964)
86. R. Edward Freeman, Strategic Management: A Stakeholder Approach (Marshfield, MA: Pitman, 1984)
87. Dow Votaw and S. Prakash Sethi, The Corporate Dilemma: Traditional Values Versus Contemporary Problems, (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1973)
88. William Frederick, “From CSR1 to CSR2: The Maturing of Business and Society Thought,” Business and Society, 33/2 (August 1994): 150-164.
89. For one of the classics of this field, which predates the social turbulence of the late 1960s, see Edward S. Mason, ed., The Corporation In Modern Society, (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1959).
90. For an excellent collection of case studies of corporate responses to non-market pressures, see the various editions of S. Prakash Sethi, Up Against The Corporate Wall (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1971, 1974, 1982).
91. For one of the only contributions to this literature by a political scientist, see Neil Mitchell, “Corporate Power, Legitimacy, and Social Power,” Western Political Quarterly, 39/2 (June 1986): 198-212
92. Neil Mitchell, The Generous Corporation (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1989).
93. Leonard Silk and David Vogel, Ethics and Profits: The Crisis of Confidence in American Business (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1976).
94. David Vogel, “Why Businessmen Mistrust Their State: The Political Consciousness of American Corporate Executives,” British Journal of Political Science, 8/1 (January 1978).
95. Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America: An Interpretation of American Political Thought Since the Revolution (New York, NY: Harcourt, Brace, 1955)
96. Samuel Huntington, American Politics and The Politics of Disharmony (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981)
97. Theda Skocpol, Protecting Soldiers and Mothers: The Political Origins of Social Policy in the United States (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
98. See, for example, Betz Mintz, “United States,” in Tom Bottomore and Robert S. Brym, The Capitalist Class: An International Study (New York, NY: New York University Press, 1989), pp. 207-237
99. Michael Schwartz, The Structure of Power in America: The Corporate Elite As A Ruling Class (New York, NY: Holmes and Meier, 1987)
100. Michael Soref and Maurice Zeitlin, “Finance Capital and the Internal Structure of the Capitalist Class in the United States,” in Mark S. Mizruchi and Michael Schwartz, eds., Intercorporate Relations: The Structural Analysis of Business (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1987), pp. 56-84
101. Michael Useem, The Inner Circle
102. Mark S. Mizruchi, “Similarity of Political Behavior among Large American Corporations,” American Journal of Sociology, 95/2 (September 1989): 401-424.
103. David Vogel, National Styles of Regulation: Environmental Policy in Great Britain and the United States (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press).
104. David Vogel, “The Globalization of Business Ethics: Why America Remains Distinctive,” California Management Review, 35/1 (Fall 1992).
105. See, for example, Lester Thurow, Head to Head: The Coming Economic Battle Among Japan, Europe, and America (New York, NY: William Morrow and Company, 1992)
106. Otis L. Graham, Jr., Losing Time: The Industrial Policy Debate (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1992).
107. David Vogel, “Government-Industry Relations in the United States: An Overview/in Stephen Wills and Maurice Wright, eds., Comparative Governement-Industry Relations (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1987).
108. David Vogel, “The Public Interest Movement and the American Reform Tradition,” Political Science Quarterly (Winter 1980-1981).
109. David Vogel, Lobbying the Corporation: Citizen Challenges to Business Authority (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1978).
110. See, for example, Steven D. Lydenberg, Alice Tepper Marlin, Sean O'Brien Strub, and the Council On Economic Priorities, Rating America's Corporate Conscience (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1986)
111. Mary Scott and Howard Rothman, Companies With a Conscience: Intimate Portraits of Twelve Firms That Make a Difference (New York, NY: Citadel Press, 1992)
112. Peter Kinder, Steven Lydenberg, and Amy Domini, Investing for Good: Making Money While Being Socially Responsible (New York, NY: Harper Business, 1993).
113. In addition to more than fifty monographs, popular books, and texts, there are two academic journals devoted entirely to this subject: The Journal of Business Ethics and Business Ethics Quarterly. For representative collections of cases and essays, see Joseph C. Badaracco, Jr., Business Ethics: Roles & Responsibilities, (Chicago, IL: Irwin, 1995)
114. W. Michael Hoffman and Robert E. Frederick, Business Ethics: Readings and Cases in Corporate Morality (New York, NY: McGraw Hill, 1984, 1990, 1995).
115. David Vogel, “The Ethical Roots of Business Ethics,” Business Ethics Quarterly (January 1991).
116. See, for example, George J. Stigler, “The Theory of Economic Regulation,” in George J. Stigler, ed., The Citizen and the State (Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press), pp. 114-144.
117. David Vogel, “When Consumers Oppose Consumer Protection: The Politics of Regulatory Backlash,” Journal of Public Policy, 10/4 (1991).
118. David Vogel, “Political Science and the Study of Corporate Power: A Dissent from the New Conventional Wisdom,” British Journal of Political Science, 17/4 (1987).
119. David Vogel, Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America (New York, NY: Basic Books, 1989).
120. For an important statement of the structuralist position, see Fred L. Block, Revising State Theory: Essays in Politics & Postindustrialism (Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1987).
121. David Vogel, “The Political Impact of the Large Corporation: A Legislative History of Federal Clean Air Policy, 1963-1981,” in B. Bock et al., eds., The Modern Corporation: Size and Impacts (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 1984).
122. For some preliminary efforts, see V.V. Murray, ed., Theories of Business-Government (Toronto: Trans-Canada Press, 1985)
123. Barry M. Mitnick, ed., Corporate Political Agency: The Construction of Competition in Public Affairs (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1993).
124. For an excellent overview of the research generated by the former, see the annual editions of Research in Corporate Social Performance and Policy (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1978-1995). The number of management faculty who specialize in this field has grown significantly during the last decade. There are two scholarly organizations: the Social Issues Division of the Academy of Management and the International Association of Business and Society, both holding well-attended annual meetings. The latter organization also has its own journal, Business and Society.
125. See David Yoffie and Sigrid Bergenstein, “Corporate Political Entrepreneurship,” California Management Review, 28/1 (Fall 1985): 124-139
126. David Baron, “Integrating Market and Nonmarket Strategies,” California Management Review, 37/2 (Winter 1995): 47-65
127. David Baron, Business and Its Environment (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1993).
128. For a creative attempt to link corporate strategy with public policy, see Robert H. Miles, Coffin Nails and Corporate Strategies, (Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1982).
129. See also the essays inAlfred Marcus, Allen M. Kaufman, and David R. Beam, eds., Business Strategy and Public Policy: Perspective from Industry and Academia (New York, NY: Quorum Books, 1987).