The Corporate State and the Broker State
Title | The Corporate State and the Broker State PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Fredrick Burk |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | 392 |
Release | 1990 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780674172722 |
The du Ponts, one of the most powerful families in American industry, actively fought policies that gave government more power over the economy. By focusing on one family's contribution to the economic and political debate between the world wars, Burk casts light on the changing fortunes of business and government in twentieth-century America.
Beyond the Broker State
Title | Beyond the Broker State PDF eBook |
Author | Jonathan J. Bean |
Publisher | Univ of North Carolina Press |
Total Pages | 304 |
Release | 2002-03-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780807854259 |
Focusing on anti-chain-store legislation beginning in the 1930s and on the establishment of federal small business agencies in the 1940s and 1950s, Jonathan Bean analyzes public policy toward small business. Beyond the Broker State challenges the long-accepted definition of politics as the interplay of organized interest groups, mediated by a broker state.
Beyond the Broker State
Title | Beyond the Broker State PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Small business |
ISBN | 9780585036472 |
By demonstrating the continuing importance of small business to American political ideology, Bean's study challenges corporate-liberal historians' notion that by the 1930s America had reached a consensus that corporate capitalism and big business were good for the country.
Dishonest Broker
Title | Dishonest Broker PDF eBook |
Author | Naseer Hasan Aruri |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Arab-Israeli conflict |
ISBN | 9780896086883 |
The revised edition of "The Obstruction of Peace," Aruri's classic account of Oslo and its collapse.
The Politics of Resource Extraction
Title | The Politics of Resource Extraction PDF eBook |
Author | S. Sawyer |
Publisher | Springer |
Total Pages | 579 |
Release | 2012-02-14 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0230368794 |
International institutions (United Nations, World Bank) and multinational companies have voiced concern over the adverse impact of resource extraction activities on the livelihood of indigenous communities. This volume examines mega resource extraction projects in Australia, Bolivia, Canada, Chad, Cameroon, India, Nigeria, Peru, the Philippines.
The Honest Broker
Title | The Honest Broker PDF eBook |
Author | Roger A. Pielke, Jr |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | 198 |
Release | 2007-04-19 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1139464825 |
Scientists have a choice concerning what role they should play in political debates and policy formation, particularly in terms of how they present their research. This book is about understanding this choice, what considerations are important to think about when deciding, and the consequences of such choices for the individual scientist and the broader scientific enterprise. Rather than prescribing what course of action each scientist ought to take, the book aims to identify a range of options for individual scientists to consider in making their own judgments about how they would like to position themselves in relation to policy and politics. Using examples from a range of scientific controversies and thought-provoking analogies from other walks of life, The Honest Broker challenges us all - scientists, politicians and citizens - to think carefully about how best science can contribute to policy-making and a healthy democracy.
Migrants for Export
Title | Migrants for Export PDF eBook |
Author | Robyn Magalit Rodriguez |
Publisher | U of Minnesota Press |
Total Pages | 225 |
Release | 2010-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1452915210 |
Migrant workers from the Philippines are ubiquitous to global capitalism, with nearly 10 percent of the population employed in almost two hundred countries. In a visit to the United States in 2003, Philippine president Gloria Macapagal Arroyo even referred to herself as not only the head of state but also “the CEO of a global Philippine enterprise of eight million Filipinos who live and work abroad.†Robyn Magalit Rodriguez investigates how and why the Philippine government transformed itself into what she calls a labor brokerage state, which actively prepares, mobilizes, and regulates its citizens for migrant work abroad. Filipino men and women fill a range of jobs around the globe, including domestic work, construction, and engineering, and they have even worked in the Middle East to support U.S. military operations. At the same time, the state redefines nationalism to normalize its citizens to migration while fostering their ties to the Philippines. Those who leave the country to work and send their wages to their families at home are treated as new national heroes. Drawing on ethnographic research of the Philippine government's migration bureaucracy, interviews, and archival work, Rodriguez presents a new analysis of neoliberal globalization and its consequences for nation-state formation.