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Politics and Indian Business: The Economic Setting

Politics and Indian Business: The Economic Setting

Big Business in Japanese Politics. By Chitoshi Yanaga. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. 371. $8.75.)

Big Business in Japanese Politics. By Chitoshi Yanaga. (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1968. Pp. 371. $8.75.)

The Politics of Business: Relations between Zanzibar and Bagamoyo in the Late Nineteenth Century

More than five hundred miles inland from the East African coast, two men gained special recognition in their respective homelands. One, an elderly Musambiro, had seen Bagamoyo and consequently [was] regarded as an oracle in the country.l The other was an Uvinza village chief who seen the world -he having travelled to Bagamoyo.2 This coconut-palm-laden town emerged as a symbol of man's ability to satisfy his physical, material, and spiritual expectations. Indeed, one of the proudest achievements of an East African was that he seen this town and lived, even if for only the briefest time, the comfortable life .3

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Lige for lige? Kønssegregering i Folketingsudvalg og i ledelsen af det private erhvervsliv

In this article, we describe and discuss the vertical and horizontal gender segregation in the elites of Danish Parliamentary politics and private business. Our new data on the gender distribution on corporate boards of publicly traded firms show how women are absent among board chairs and CEOs and illustrates the low representation of women among board members. Among members of Parliamentary committees a more equal gender representation is found, however, there is a clear tendency toward a vertical and a horizontal segregation. Our findings show that women MPs are less represented in certain Parliamentary committees on foreign affairs, economy, finance, tax and transportation. This distribution mirrors other country studies on Parliamentary committees. We propose two hypotheses in order to explain our explorative study: a thesis on a gender bias of certain policy areas and a hypothesis on the significance of the ‘public eye’. Concerning the latter, our results illustrate how institutions subject to ‘the public eye’ have more balanced gender compositions than institutions with less public attention, like corporate boards.

The Social and Economic Policies of German Big Business, 1918-1929

THE business of businessmen is business, not politics, and their political engagement is almost invariably a function of their socioeconomic concerns. The political behavior of big business in the Weimar Republic is a particularly striking illustration of this generalization, and the rich collections of personal papers and records of business organizations and individual firms available in the industrial and public archives of the two Germanies make it possible to explore in greater depth than ever before the relationship between the socioeconomic problems and policies of big business, on the one hand, and the nature and tempo of the political activity of big business, on the other.' Here I shall discuss some of the more important and symptomatic characteristics of this relationship for the period between the Revolution of I9I8 and the beginning of the Great Depression. The belief in the primacy of economic over political considerations was of great significance in determining the politics of big business. There is nothing uniquely German about the identification by businessmen of the general welfare with the prosperity and autonomy of the business community, but this tendency necessarily had been reinforced by the policies of the German Empire, which had rewarded acceptance of its political system with economic autonomy, social privilege, and political advantages. The old regime was appropriately rewarded for this systematic training in opportunism when it was abandoned and practically buried alive by leading businessmen on the eve of the November Revolution. Carl Duisberg, the founder of 1. G. Farben and the president of the Reich Association of German Industry from I925 tO I930, was explicit on this score. A staunch supporter of Erich Ludendorff in September I9I8, he almost welcomed the republic three weeks too early. He wrote to a colleague in midOctober:

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Big Business in Japanese Politics

Big Business in Japanese Politics.

Big Business in Japanese Politics.

Big Business in Japanese Politics.

Big Business in Japanese Politics.

Political Concepts and Business Management

Political Concepts and Business Management

The Politics of Small Business

The Politics of Small Business

American Business and Public Policy. The Politics of Foreign Trade

American Business and Public Policy is a study of the politics of foreign trade. It challenges fifty years of writ-ing on pressure politics. It includes nine hundred interviews with heads of corporations, including 166 of the 200 largest corporations; another 500 interviews with congressmen, lob-byists, journalists, and opinion leaders; and eight community studies making this book the most intensive survey in print of the politics of business. It is a realistic behavioral examination of a major type of economic decision. The authors introduce their study with a history of the tariff as a political issue in American politics and a history of American tariff legislation in the years from Europe's trade recovery under the Marshall Plan to the challenge of the Common Market. They examine in succession the changing attitudes of the general public and the political actions of the business community, the lobbies, and Congress. American Business and Public Policy is a contribution to social theory in several of its branches. It is a contribution to understanding the business community, to the social psychol-ogy of communication and attitude change, to the study of political behavior in foreign policy. American Business and Public Policy is at once a study of a classic issue in American politics-the tariff; decision-making, particularly the relation of economic to social-psycho-logical theories of behavior; business communication-what businessmen read about world affairs, what effect foreign travel has on them, where they turn for political advice, and how they seek political help; pressure politics, lobbying, and the Congressional process.

Business Politicians In Action: The New Zealand Railway Boom Of The 1870s*

Business Politicians In Action: The New Zealand Railway Boom Of The 1870s*

Book Reviews: The Divine Politics of Thomas Hobbes: An Interpretation of Leviathan, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life, The Hour of Decision, Power, Law, Right, and Love: A Study in Political Values, Political Ideals, Nomos Vi: Justice, An Atheist's Values, The English Constitution, Our Parliament, What's Wrong with Parliament?, The Office of Speaker, Recruits to Labour:

Book Reviews: The Divine Politics of Thomas Hobbes: An Interpretation of Leviathan, Man and Technics: A Contribution to a Philosophy of Life, The Hour of Decision, Power, Law, Right, and Love: A Study in Political Values, Political Ideals, Nomos Vi: Justice, An Atheist's Values, The English Constitution, Our Parliament, What's Wrong with Parliament?, The Office of Speaker, Recruits to Labour:

The Politics of Small Business.

The Politics of Small Business.

The Politics of Small Business.Harmon Zeigler

Previous articleNext article No AccessBook ReviewsThe Politics of Small Business. Harmon Zeigler James W. ProthroJames W. Prothro Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by The Journal of Politics Volume 24, Number 2May, 1962 Sponsored by the Southern Political Science Association Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1017/S0022381600016637 Views: 4Total views on this site PDF download Crossref reports no articles citing this article.

The Politics of Small Business.

The Politics of Small Business.

Contributions from African Sources to the History of European Competition in the Upper Valley of the Nile

Of the African states with which European Powers were in contact during the period of active competition on the Upper Nile, two in particular, the Empire of Ethiopia and the Mahdist State, were sufficiently sophisticated to transact their political and administrative business in writing and to maintain more or less systematic records. Thanks to the work of P. M. Holt, the nature and scope of the Mahdist archives are now well known, and it is evident that they can be expected to furnish a very detailed picture of the fiscal and military organization of the Mahdist State. The documentation of external affairs is necessarily much less abundant; in principle, theMahdiacould not entertain diplomatic relations with ‘the corruptions of this world ’—the existing political organisms which, whether frankly infidel or officially Muslim, had been rendered obsolete by the new dispensation. But this principle was gradually eroded by the exigencies of practical politics. The foreign correspondence of the early Mahdia is simply a series of minatory admonitions to the ‘enemies of God,’ summoning them to submit to the Mahdi; but as the universal aspirations of Mahdism were tacitly abandoned under the Khalifa, its external relations reverted to a more conventional form. Certain uncommitted Muslim states of the western (Nigerian) Sudan began to be considered as potential friends rather than as a part of the Mahdistdar al-harb.

Micropolitics: Mechanisms of Institutional Change

While the corporation is hardly a microcosm of the state, study of the internal politics of universities and business concerns may develop insights contributing to the understanding of political action in general. Corporations are co-operative systems assembled out of the usable attributes of people. They are also social systems within which people compete for advancement; in so doing they may make use of others. Behavior is identified as political when others are made use of as resources in competitive situations. Material, or extrahuman, resources are also socially organized. Additional resources, resulting from innovation or new types of personal commitments alter the prevailing equilibrium and either instigate or release political action. Such action is a mechanism of social change. Tom Burns is a reader, Social Sciences Research Center, University of Edinburgh.