dc.contributor.advisor | Hyland, Eddie | |
dc.contributor.author | Bernhagen, Patrick | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-11-24T17:12:34Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-11-24T17:12:34Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Patrick Bernhagen, 'The political power of business : structure and information in public policymaking', [thesis], Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science, 2005, pp 298 | |
dc.identifier.other | THESIS 8026 | |
dc.description.abstract | In this study, I analyse the conditions that lead to the political power position of business in democratic capitalist systems. Overcoming traditional dichotomies of structural economic determinants versus corporate political action, I investigate how in their political strategies business lobbyists employ privately held information about the costs and effects of public policy in the real world. I argue that business' privileged access to policy-relevant information is an important power resource alongside more commonly researched resources such as money and organisation, membership in elite networks, or the prerogative over allocation and investment. In a review of the main theoretical strands of scholarly work on business and politics: (neo-) pluralist group theory, network approaches, theories of ideological domination, and structural power theories - I evaluate the main contributions that these approaches make to explaining the sources and limits of business political power. | |
dc.format | 1 volume | |
dc.language.iso | en | |
dc.publisher | Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Political Science | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://stella.catalogue.tcd.ie/iii/encore/record/C__Rb13058070 | |
dc.subject | Political Science, Ph.D. | |
dc.subject | Ph.D. Trinity College Dublin | |
dc.title | The political power of business : structure and information in public policymaking | |
dc.type | thesis | |
dc.type.supercollection | thesis_dissertations | |
dc.type.supercollection | refereed_publications | |
dc.type.qualificationlevel | Doctoral | |
dc.type.qualificationname | Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) | |
dc.rights.ecaccessrights | openAccess | |
dc.format.extentpagination | pp 298 | |
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dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2262/77864 | |