Here, there, or delaware? How corporate threats distort democracy

IF 1.6 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS
Athmeya Jayaram, Vishnu Sridharan
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Abstract

Concern for corporate influence on democratic decisions has mostly focused on campaign funding and access to legislators. While these are certainly worrisome, corporations have another tool to influence decisions, which they are increasingly using. They can threaten to move their operations or cancel expansion plans in a municipality unless its public officials pass (or kill) certain policies. In one sense, this is business as usual. Companies have the right to decide where to operate, and it is important for officials to consider how policy will impact local businesses that provide jobs and tax revenue. On the other hand, companies can use these threats to get their way on any policy, whether or not it impacts them. How do we tell when this kind of corporate action is illegitimate? We argue that such actions are illegitimate when they violate democratic norms of reason-giving, which occurs when companies offer the public “created” rather than “natural” reasons for their proposed policy.
这里,那里,还是特拉华州?企业威胁如何扭曲民主
对企业影响民主决策的担忧主要集中在竞选资金和接触立法者的机会上。虽然这些当然令人担忧,但企业还有另一种影响决策的工具,它们越来越多地使用这种工具。他们可以威胁要转移他们的业务或取消在市政当局的扩张计划,除非其公职人员通过(或杀死)某些政策。从某种意义上说,一切照旧。企业有权决定在哪里经营,重要的是官员们要考虑政策将如何影响提供就业和税收的当地企业。另一方面,公司可以利用这些威胁来达到任何政策的目的,不管它是否会影响到他们。我们如何判断这种公司行为是不合法的?我们认为,当这些行为违反民主的给出理由的规范时,它们是非法的,当公司为其拟议的政策向公众提供“创造”而不是“自然”的理由时,就会发生这种情况。
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期刊介绍: Politics, Philosophy & Economics aims to bring moral, economic and political theory to bear on the analysis, justification and criticism of political and economic institutions and public policies. The Editors are committed to publishing peer-reviewed papers of high quality using various methodologies from a wide variety of normative perspectives. They seek to provide a distinctive forum for discussions and debates among political scientists, philosophers, and economists on such matters as constitutional design, property rights, distributive justice, the welfare state, egalitarianism, the morals of the market, democratic socialism, population ethics, and the evolution of norms.
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