Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics*

IF 4.1 2区社会学 Q1 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Politics & Society Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1177/0032329220985749

G. Morgan, C. Ibsen

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Abstract

This introduction summarizes the main contributions of this special issue titled “Quiet Politics and the Power of Business: New Perspectives in an Era of Noisy Politics.” The four articles in the issue use and extend Culpepper’s influential concept of “quiet politics” according to which business is able to shape policies and regulations when issues are of low salience to the public and politicians. The issue takes Culpepper’s analysis further in ways that respond to the rise of noisy politics over the last few years, often associated with new strident forms of left- and right-wing populism. Three contributions are made. First, the articles show that salience is not an inherent property of a policy area but is socially constructed. Second, a variety of strategies are described that business uses when trying to keep politics quiet. Third, strategies are affected by the structure of business, which varies across types of capitalism. Future research can use these insights to extend our understanding of the limits, strategies, and dynamics of quiet politics across political economies.

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安静的政治与商业的力量：嘈杂政治时代的新视角*

这篇引言总结了本期特刊《安静的政治和商业的力量:喧嚣政治时代的新视角》的主要贡献。这期杂志的四篇文章使用并扩展了卡尔佩珀颇具影响力的“安静政治”概念，根据该概念，当公众和政治家不太关注的问题时，企业能够制定政策和法规。这个问题进一步深化了卡尔佩珀的分析，以回应过去几年喧嚣政治的兴起，这些政治往往与左翼和右翼民粹主义的新尖锐形式联系在一起。有三个贡献。首先，文章表明，突出性不是政策领域的固有属性，而是社会建构的。其次，描述了企业在试图保持政治沉默时使用的各种策略。第三，战略受到商业结构的影响，而商业结构因资本主义类型而异。未来的研究可以利用这些见解来扩展我们对政治经济中安静政治的局限性、策略和动态的理解。

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