Handbook of Business and Public Policy: (Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series)

This comprehensive Handbook provides an analysis of the key issues, accomplishments, and challenges of research and practices related to the interactions between business and public policy. International expert contributors explore how the organizational structures of government and business have changed as the world has become more globalized, and as researchers have accumulated insights into why and how public policy is influenced by, and in turn influences, business. Examining how businesses themselves have increasingly contributed to the making and implementation of policy, chapters illuminate the most significant debates as well as the theoretical and empirical developments in these areas. This approach enables a comparison of the similarities and differences across the field of business and public policy as a whole. Identifying new directions and research questions in this rapidly evolving field, this Handbook will be a useful resource for academics and students of business and public policy, as well as related areas including corporate governance, political economy and international business. Practitioners and policy makers will also benefit from its illumination of the complex relationship between business and public policy.

Table of Contents:
Contents: Foreword xi Preface xii 1 Business and public policy: introducing the field 1 Aynsley Kellow, Tony Porter and Karsten Ronit 2 Corporations in governance: what do they want and how do they get it? 24 Doris Fuchs and Benedikt Lennartz 3 Three circles: firms and parties from the twentieth to the twenty-first century 42 Iain McMenamin 4 Investor-state dispute settlement: challenging private governance 57 Christopher May 5 Competition laws and their enforcement in the US and Europe: origins, evolution and contestation 75 Angela Wigger 6 Business and consumer policy 90 Karsten Ronit 7 Understanding and influencing trade policy 106 Louise Curran 8 Making global public policy: business and global patent protection standards 122 Valbona Muzaka 9 Business and public policy: training policy 138 Patrick Emmenegger and Daniel Franz Unterweger 10 Unravelling the relationship between tax policy and business: theory, evidence and facts 154 Lyne Latulippe and Nicolas Proulx 11 Business and monetary policy 175 Sven M. Hilgers 12 Business and politics in an age of intangibles and financialization 191 Philip G. Cerny 13 Defence policy making: a case study of defence industry engagement in Australia 213 Stefan Markowski, Rob Bourke and Robert Wylie 14 Business, science and technology governance: from layering, conversion and drift to responsible research and innovation? 230 Robert Hoppe 15 Migration policy 258 Gerard McCann 16 Business and the (corporate) welfare state 276 Kevin Farnsworth 17 Hollywood’s changing business model and the future of cultural diversity 295 Harvey B. Feigenbaum 18 Industrial policy 306 Matt Wilder 19 Food and agriculture policy 322 Jessica Vapnek and Tiffany Wang 20 Business and energy and environmental policy 340 Aynsley Kellow 21 Business and financial regulation 358 Anwar Sheluchin and Tony Porter 22 Tourism and public policy 375 Christof Pforr Index

About the Author :
Edited by Aynsley Kellow, Professor Emeritus of Government, School of Social Sciences, University of Tasmania, Australia, Tony Porter, Professor, Department of Political Science, McMaster University, Canada and Karsten Ronit, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark

Review :
'I recommend this volume to anyone interested not just in the immediate topic but in the broader ramifications of what has been called: ''globalization''.' 'The editors have assembled an impressive global team to offer rich and insightful analyses of the dynamic relationship between business and politics. Covering a wide range of topics, the volume combines historical analysis with contemporary debates, featuring top scholars in the field. This excellent contribution addresses the increasingly complex global policy and regulatory landscape and presents a compelling agenda for future research.'