BUSINESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Implications for Inclusive Development

Jose Carlos Marques & Peter Utting

ISBN 10: 0230576451 / ISBN 13: 9780230576452

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, London, 2010

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BUSINESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Implications for Inclusive Development. Jose Carlos Marques & Peter Utting (Editors). Palgrave Macmillan, London. 2010 First edition ISBN 9780230576452 328pp Hardback. This copy is in mint, unread condition in illustrated laminated boards, a dust wrapper is not called for. Globalization and liberalization have profoundly altered power relations, institutional arrangements and business strategies. Historically, these have played a role in regulating corporations and engaging business as a partner in social development. In today's developing and transitional economies, how do organized business interests influence social and other public policies that shape inclusive development? This fascinating study explores under what conditions business can be expected to support or accommodate progressive social policy and whether the rise of big business fundamentally constrains inclusive development processes. Based on conceptual and historical analyses, the book also includes contemporary country case studies on Brazil, Chile, India, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Russia and South Africa. Marques and Utting and their team use these to illustrate the predominant means by which corporate interests directly and indirectly influence social, labour market and development policy, the reasons for their positions and the scope of their influence. Ref II4.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: BUSINESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Implications for Inclusive Development
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, London
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0230576451
• ISBN 13: 9780230576452
• Binding: Hardback
• Edition: First Edition
• Condition: Mint

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Synopsis

This is the second volume on the changing nature of state-business relations. This book examines how the dynamics of business have influenced public policy in the context of economic liberalization and democratization. It identifies the circumstances under which business might support progressive policies in developing countries.

About the Author

JOSE CARLOS MARQUES is a former Research Analyst in the Markets, Business and Regulation Program at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland. His publications include Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development? (co-edited with Peter Utting).
 
PETER UTTING is Deputy Director and Co-ordinator of the Markets, Business and Regulation Program of the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), Switzerland. His publications include the edited volumes Corporate Social Responsibility and Regulatory Governance: Towards Inclusive Development? (co-edited with José Carlos Marques), Corporate Accountability and Sustainable Development (co-edited with Jennifer Clapp) and The Greening of Business in Developing Countries: Rhetoric, Reality and Prospects.