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Stuck in Neutral
1999,2000
Overview
According to conventional wisdom, big business wields enormous influence over America's political agenda and is responsible for the relatively limited scale of the country's social policies. InStuck in Neutral, however, Cathie Jo Martin challenges that view, arguing that big business has limited involvement in social policy and in many instances desires broader social interventions.
Combining hundreds of in-depth interviews with careful quantitative analysis, Martin shows that there is strong support among managers for government-sponsored training, health, work, and family initiatives to enhance workers' skills and productivity. This support does not translate into political action, surprisingly, because big firms are not organized to intervene effectively. Every large company has its own staff to deal with government affairs, but overarching organizations for the most part lobby ineffectively for the collective interests of big business in the social realm. By contrast, small firms, which cannot afford to lobby the government directly, rely on representative associations to speak for them. The unified voice of small business comes through much more clearly in policy circles than the diverse messages presented by individual corporations, ensuring that the small-business agenda of limited social policy prevails.
A vivid portrayal of the interplay between business and politics,Stuck in Neutraloffers a fresh take on some of the most controversial issues of our day. It is a must read for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of the American welfare state and political economy.
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Subject
/ American Enterprise Institute
/ Committee for Economic Development
/ Democratic Leadership Council
/ Government shutdown in the United States
/ Human capital -- United States
/ Kevin Phillips (political commentator)
/ Lobbying in the United States
/ National Bureau of Economic Research
/ National Center on Education and the Economy
/ National Federation of Independent Business
/ North American Free Trade Agreement
/ POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
/ Professional liability insurance
/ SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY OF BUSINESS
/ Social responsibility of business -- United States
/ Tax
/ United States -- Social policy
/ USA
/ Welfare
ISBN
9780691009612, 0691009619, 0691009600, 9780691009605, 9781400823277, 1400823277
