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Discuss with examples. 2. What are the varieties of capitalism? How do these affect business influence? 3. How does business exert influence in policy in a globalised world? Does this make national governments powerless? Discuss with examples.
Notes: Introduction 300 +150 Theoretical model How do they exert policy 450+100 Examples of policy in a globalised world 300 National government powerless? For and against 500 Conclusion 300 http://www.polisci.ccsu.edu/trieb/InfluGov.html How do they influence Campaign funding Lobbying Captured regulatory connection The Washington connection Corporate influence of government http://corporate-rule.co.uk/drupal/node/44 Very good introduction. Comparing lobbying with corruption: Theoratical/Emprical approach http://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/33990/1/518050076.pdf Examples of Toyota moving away plants, Apple and Google not paying corporation taxes Open right group: How do they influence, Work. http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-gulf-spill-continues-is-obama-powerlessagainst-bp/19634 Example : Obama/PAC received $77,000 Against gulf oil spill BP http://www.unrisd.org/80256B3C005BD6AB/search/503DEAB3B72F213DC12573 5200491868?OpenDocument For lobbying. http://ac.els-cdn.com/S0176268012000602/1-s2.0-S0176268012000602main.pdf?_tid=27f39f08-9ca2-11e3-be2d00000aab0f01&acdnat=1393170782_2ad2308cdd42200886cf510a795b28ea Firms characteristic and lobbying: Theory and empirical data
http://www.jstor.org/stable/pdfplus/3219874.pdf?acceptTC=true&acceptTC=true &jpdConfirm=true Funding Mechanisms and Policy Instruments: How Business Campaign Contributions Influence Congressional Votes http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/as-drug-industrys-influenceover-research-grows-so-does-the-potential-for-bias/2012/11/24/bb64d596-126411e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_story.html Pharmaceutical influence. http://www.economicsnetwork.ac.uk/sites/default/files/Brian%20Roach/Corporat e_Power_in_a_Global_Economy.pdf Reduction in cooperations taxes https://www.neumann.edu/academics/divisions/business/journal/Review_SP06/p df/transnational_corporations.pdf Transnational cooprotaions https://www.actionaid.org.uk/sites/default/files/doc_lib/174_6_under_the_influe nce_final.pdf Corporate influence in WTO http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/2130.htm How global influence is increasing of cooperation http://www.opensecrets.org/pacs/index.php?chart=P pac chart http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/4079:unequal-influence-there-arepoliticians-who-work-on-behalf-of-corporations-and-those-who-work-on-behalfof-humans unequal influence http://are.berkeley.edu/courses/EEP131/old_files/MiscellaneousArticles/Deardorff .pdf coopration influenced in a globalised world. http://www.slideshare.net/tskeys/corporate-clout-distributed-the-influence-ofthe-worlds-largest-100-economic-entities wall mart example http://www.policymic.com/articles/71255/10-corporations-control-almosteverything-you-buy-this-chart-shows-how 10 firms dominate