Corporate Power, American Democracy, and the Automobile Industry
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Product details:
- Publisher Cambridge University Press
- Date of Publication 28 December 1999
- ISBN 9780521631730
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages218 pages
- Size 238x161x20 mm
- Weight 440 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 1 b/w illus. 2 tables 0
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Short description:
A critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry, assessing the impact of the large corporation on American democracy.
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This book offers a critical history of government policy toward the US automobile industry in order to assess the impact of the large corporation on American democracy. It offers the first book-length treatment of the power of the nation's largest industry. Drawing together the main policy issues affecting the automobile industry over the past forty years - occupant safety, emissions, fuel economy and trade - the work examines how the industry established its hegemony over the public perception of vehicle safety to inhibit federal regulation and the battle for federal regulation which succeeded in toppling this hegemony in 1966; the subsequent efforts to include pollution emissions and fuel economy under federal mandates in the 1970s; the industry's resurgence of influence in the 1980s; and the mixed pattern of influence in the 1990s. The analysis seeks to uncover factors that enhance corporate political influence, and those that constrain corporate power, allowing for public interest forces to be successful.
"A calm, analytic, probing, documented and riveting critique of Washington's kowtowing to Detroit, and the efforts of consumer and environmental groups, on behalf of motorists, safety and clean air, to stop the melding of this corporate state." Ralph Nader, Washington D.C.
Table of Contents:
Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Studying power in America; 2. The structure of the auto industry; 3. Corporate political hegemony and its decline: 1916-66; 4. The politics of compromise: 1967-78; 5. The resurgence of corporate power: 1979-81; 6. The triumph of corporate power: regulatory policy, 1981-8; 7. The triumph of corporate power: trade policy, 1981-5; 8. Interregnum: 1989-96; Conclusion: corporate power and American democracy; Index.
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