Power, Policy and Profit: Corporate Engagement in Politics and Governance

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Power, Policy and Profit investigates the manifold ways in which corporate actors attempt to broadly influence political activities. With intensified globalization of markets, the restructuring of provisions of welfare services and accumulation of private capital opportunities for corporate influence in politics affairs have multiplied. Bringing together scholars from different fields in the study of global governance, the volume addresses the rising influence and power of corporate actors on the national and transnational political scene. Front Matter ......Page 1 Copyright......Page 2 Contents......Page 3 Contributors......Page 5 Acknowledgements......Page 7 Introduction: political affairs in the global domain......Page 9 1. Building an architecture for political influence: Atlas and the transnational institutionalization of the neoliberal think tank......Page 33 2. Global policy bricolage: the role of business in the World Economic Forum......Page 53 3. Policymaking as collective bricolage: the role of the electricity sector in the making of the European carbon market......Page 72 4. Lobbying in practice: an ethnographic field study of public affairs consultancy......Page 90 5. Firms’ political strategies in a new public/private environment: the Boeing case......Page 108 6. Corporate advocacy in the Internet domain: shaping policy through data visualizations......Page 123 7. Talking like an institutional investor: on the gentle voices of financial giants......Page 142 8. Leading the war on epidemics: exploring corporations’ predatory modus operandi and their effects on institutional field dynamics......Page 160 9. Political chocolate: branding it fairtrade......Page 178 10. Preventing markets from self-destruction......Page 194 11. Reflections: leaving Flatland? Planar discourses and the search for the g-axis......Page 216 Index......Page 231