Download or read book Defending Corporations and Individuals in Government Investigations written by Daniel J. Fetterman and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporations and American Democracy written by Naomi R. Lamoreaux and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Citizens United and other high-profile cases have sparked passionate disagreement about the proper role of corporations in American democracy. Partisans on both sides have made bold claims, often with little basis in historical facts. Bringing together leading scholars of history, law, and political science, Corporations and American Democracy provides the historical and intellectual grounding necessary to put today’s corporate policy debates in proper context. From the nation’s founding to the present, Americans have regarded corporations with ambivalence—embracing their potential to revolutionize economic life and yet remaining wary of their capacity to undermine democratic institutions. Although corporations were originally created to give businesses and other associations special legal rights and privileges, historically they were denied many of the constitutional protections afforded flesh-and-blood citizens. This comprehensive volume covers a range of topics, including the origins of corporations in English and American law, the historical shift from special charters to general incorporation, the increased variety of corporations that this shift made possible, and the roots of modern corporate regulation in the Progressive Era and New Deal. It also covers the evolution of judicial views of corporate rights, particularly since corporations have become the form of choice for an increasing variety of nonbusiness organizations, including political advocacy groups. Ironically, in today’s global economy the decline of large, vertically integrated corporations—the type of corporation that past reform movements fought so hard to regulate—poses some of the newest challenges to effective government oversight of the economy.
Download or read book Government Corporations Profiles of Existing Government Corporations written by DIANE Publishing Company and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1996-05 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews 58 government corpations (GC) presently in operation; their reported adherence to 15 federal statutes which cover a diverse range of legislative requirements; and proposals to create additional GCs. Corps. include: gov't. department agencies, gov't. corps. (owned and controlled by the public sector) and gov't. sponsored enterprise and private corp., (owned and controlled by the private sector.). Examples: Export-Import Bank, Fed. Housing Admin., Amtrak, OPIC, RTC, TVA, FDIC, Legal Serv. Corp., Corp. for Public Broad., Postal Service. 85 charts and tables.
Download or read book Government Corporations written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Corporate Governance in Government Corporations written by Michael J. Whincop and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-31 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book of its kind, this study of the corporate governance of for-profit business corporations examines the history of government corporations, the problems associated with mating the corporation to a public use, the possibilities for rent-seeking associated with government corporations, a new body of empirical evidence on governance practices and some of the potential areas for reform in government corporations.
Download or read book Profiles of Existing Government Corporations written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Captured written by Sheldon Whitehouse and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A U.S. senator, leading the fight against money in politics, chronicles the long shadow corporate power has cast over our democracy In Captured, U.S. Senator and former federal prosecutor Sheldon Whitehouse offers an eye-opening take on what corporate influence looks like today from the Senate Floor, adding a first-hand perspective to Jane Mayer’s Dark Money. Americans know something is wrong in their government. Senator Whitehouse combines history, legal scholarship, and personal experiences to provide the first hands-on, comprehensive explanation of what's gone wrong, exposing multiple avenues through which our government has been infiltrated and disabled by corporate powers. Captured reveals an original oversight by the Founders, and shows how and why corporate power has exploited that vulnerability: to strike fear in elected representatives who don’t “get right” by threatening million-dollar "dark money" election attacks (a threat more effective and less expensive than the actual attack); to stack the judiciary—even the Supreme Court—in "business-friendly" ways; to "capture” the administrative agencies meant to regulate corporate behavior; to undermine the civil jury, the Constitution's last bastion for ordinary citizens; and to create a corporate "alternate reality" on public health and safety issues like climate change. Captured shows that in this centuries-long struggle between corporate power and individual liberty, we can and must take our American government back into our own hands.
Download or read book The Government of Corporations written by Richard Sedric Fox Eells and published by New York : Free Press of Glencoe. This book was released on 1962 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Public s Business written by Annmarie Hauck Walsh and published by Mit Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not many books can be described as being the most comprehensive and thorough studies of their subjects available, and at the same time as being written in so lively a fashion that they easily hold the reader's attention from beginning to end. "The Public's Business" is one such exceptional work. And its subject fully warrants the scholarly research and writer's skill that was invested in it--the public authorities in the United States wield enormous political and financial power and are proliferating faster than any other type of governmental entity. The public authority is a peculiarly American institution--it is a hybrid corporation, depending on the private money markets of investment banking for capital, yet impacting directly on the public sector and indirectly subsidized by the public through the tax-exempt status of municipal bonds. Over 7000 such authorities currently spend more than 21 million dollars a year on operations and new capital facilities."The Public's Business" traces the growth of these governmental corporations and makes recommendations for their future development based on the author's balanced assessment of their present strengths and weaknesses.The author writes that "Since the births of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey in 1921 and the Tennessee Valley Authority in 1933, the most common form of government enterprise has been the public authority.... [They] build and run public works of monumental proportions: bridges, tunnels, parkways, great dams, ports, airports, public buildings, industrial and recreational parks. They provide essential services: water, gas, electric power, transportation, training, insurance, and mortgage finance. They have functioned with technical competence, with relative speed, and until recently with little obvious burden on taxpayers. They have rarely been sullied by open scandal or serious mismanagement...."However, the author also probes the flaws in the foundation on which these strengths and successes rest. She calls for reforms that will increase the public accountability of authorities, open up their operations to closer public scrutiny, make their governing structures more democratic, and realign their goals more closely in accordance with public policy.The book's approach is both wide-ranging and integrative. It is first of all a comparative study based on a large number and variety of actual cases (including among others several Pennsylvania municipal corporations, the New Jersey Sports and Exposition Authority, the Lower Colorado River Authority of Texas, the authorities supervised by the Metropolitan Council of Minneapolis-St. Paul, and the U.S. Postal Service). The author and her research collaborators conducted a series of interviews with authority management to supplement the data found in the documentary record.At the same time, the book offers a synthesizing treatment that allows insights from the fields of public administration, political science, economics and finance, and the sociology of organizations to be fitted into a systematic general framework. And the reader need not be a specialist in any of these discipline to profit from this work.The book is further enlivened with accounts of the activities of some of the colorful and powerful managers of public authorities, such as Robert Moses and Austin J. Tobin.
Download or read book The American Experiment with Government Corporations written by Jerry Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This assessment of government corporations examines their records and identifies advantages and failures. The author challenges the reader to think creatively about the government corporate form and ways to reinvent it, capitalizing on its strengths and compensating for its shortcomings.
Download or read book The Political Power of Global Corporations written by John Mikler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have long been told that corporations rule the world, their interests seemingly taking precedence over states and their citizens. Yet, while states, civil society, and international organizations are well drawn in terms of their institutions, ideologies, and functions, the world's global corporations are often more simply sketched as mechanisms of profit maximization. In this book, John Mikler re-casts global corporations as political actors with complex identities and strategies. Debunking the idea of global corporations as exclusively profit-driven entities, he shows how they seek not only to drive or modify the agendas of states but to govern in their own right. He also explains why we need to re-territorialize global corporations as political actors that reflect and project the political power of the states and regions from which they hail. We know the global corporations' names, we know where they are headquartered, and we know where they invest and operate. Economic processes are increasingly produced by the control they possess, the relationships they have, the leverage they employ, the strategic decisions they make, and the discourses they create to enhance acceptance of their interests. This book represents a call to study how they do so, rather than making assumptions based on theoretical abstractions.
Download or read book Managing the Public s Business written by Ronald C. Moe and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference Manual of Government Corporations General Accounting Office as of June 30 1945 Supplement written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Campaign Guide for Corporations and Labor Organizations written by United States. Federal Election Commission and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book We the Corporations How American Businesses Won Their Civil Rights written by Adam Winkler and published by Liveright Publishing. This book was released on 2018-02-27 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: National Book Award for Nonfiction Finalist National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction Finalist A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Notable Book of the Year A PBS “Now Read This” Book Club Selection Named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Economist and the Boston Globe A landmark exposé and “deeply engaging legal history” of one of the most successful, yet least known, civil rights movements in American history (Washington Post). In a revelatory work praised as “excellent and timely” (New York Times Book Review, front page), Adam Winkler, author of Gunfight, once again makes sense of our fraught constitutional history in this incisive portrait of how American businesses seized political power, won “equal rights,” and transformed the Constitution to serve big business. Uncovering the deep roots of Citizens United, he repositions that controversial 2010 Supreme Court decision as the capstone of a centuries-old battle for corporate personhood. “Tackling a topic that ought to be at the heart of political debate” (Economist), Winkler surveys more than four hundred years of diverse cases—and the contributions of such legendary legal figures as Daniel Webster, Roger Taney, Lewis Powell, and even Thurgood Marshall—to reveal that “the history of corporate rights is replete with ironies” (Wall Street Journal). We the Corporations is an uncompromising work of history to be read for years to come.
Download or read book Reference Manual of Government Corporations as of June 30 1945 written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Government Owned Corporations written by Harold Archer Van Dorn and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
