BUSINESS, POLITICS AND PUBLIC POLICY Implications for Inclusive Development

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.…