Description
This book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States. Using what he terms an Institutional Marxist framework, Maher argues that, far from passively responding to interest group pressures, the state has been a key agent in politically mobilizing business, and has played an active role in the organization of lobbying groups. Such business associations do not merely express the pre-existing interests of their corporate members, but are also mechanisms through which the state organizes the political power of the capitalist class. They form part of what the author refers to as an integral state-a wider network of state power which traverses and interpenetrates the state bureaucracy, the legislature, the industrial policy apparatus, and corporate governance. Based on extensive archival research, this book tracks the role of the General Electric Company as a pillar of the integral state in the United States from the finance capital period (1880 to 1930), through the managerial period (1930-1979), to the restructuring leading up to the age of neoliberalism (1979-present).
Author: Stephen Maher
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 03/30/2023
Pages: 380
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.18lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.92d
ISBN13: 9783030837747
ISBN10: 3030837742
BISAC Categories:
- Political Science | History & Theory | General
- Philosophy | Political
- Business & Economics | Corporate Governance
About the Author
Stephen Maher is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at Ontario Tech University, Canada.