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The Corporation, Democracy, and the Idea of the Bicameral Firm 公司、民主与两院制企业理念
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-24 DOI: 10.1177/00323292231163690
Tom Malleson
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引用次数: 1
Workplace Democracy, the Bicameral Firm, and Stakeholder Theory 工作场所民主、两院制企业和利益相关者理论
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-18 DOI: 10.1177/00323292231163700
M. Fleurbaey
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引用次数: 1
Prospects for Democratizing the Corporation in US Law 美国法律对公司民主化的展望
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-17 DOI: 10.1177/00323292231164281
R. Freeland
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引用次数: 0
Learning from Cooperatives to Strengthen Economic Bicameralism 向合作社学习加强经济两院制
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-10 DOI: 10.1177/00323292231163705
S. Pek
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引用次数: 0
Fallacies about Corporations: Comments on “Democratizing the Corporation” 关于公司的谬误:评“公司民主化”
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2023-04-02 DOI: 10.1177/00323292231163689
D. Ellerman
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引用次数: 1
Structural Power without the Structure: A Class-Centered Challenge to New Structural Power Formulations 没有结构的结构性权力：以阶级为中心对新的结构性权力表述的挑战
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI: 10.1177/00323292221126801
Manolis Kalaitzake
{"title":"Structural Power without the Structure: A Class-Centered Challenge to New Structural Power Formulations","authors":"Manolis Kalaitzake","doi":"10.1177/00323292221126801","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292221126801","url":null,"abstract":"This article argues for the utility in conceiving of two distinctive approaches to the structural power of finance—New Structural Power (NSP) and Traditional Structural Power (TSP). While both are crucial to political economy scholarship, this article highlights the intellectual trade-off that is inherent to the adoption of one perspective over the other, and it stresses the explanatory advantages of the TSP perspective specifically. First, it shows how the TSP framework can facilitate an understanding of when policymaker ideas do and do not matter in the exercise of structural power, retaining the concept of “automaticity” in structural power operations. Second, it demonstrates how each framework is custom-built to explain substantively different aspects of the policy process, with TSP research aimed at system-oriented limitation mechanisms and NSP research aimed at agent-oriented selection mechanisms. Third, it contends that TSP formulations must be embedded within a model of (contradictory) functional explanation, which is the best way to gain empirical traction on the most important macrostructural developments in contemporary finance-led capitalism. Methodologically, this implies an agenda of “explanation through commonalities” rather than the NSP-favored “explanation through variation.”","PeriodicalId":47847,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48741789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Banks’ Structural Power and States’ Choices on What Structurally Matters: The Geo-Economic Foundations of State Priority toward Banking in France, Germany, and Spain 银行的结构性权力和国家对结构性问题的选择:法国、德国和西班牙国家优先发展银行业的地缘经济基础
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2022-11-02 DOI: 10.1177/00323292221125565
E. Massoc
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引用次数: 2
Exit, Control, and Politics: Structural Power and Corporate Governance under Asset Manager Capitalism 退出、控制与政治:资产管理人资本主义下的结构性权力与公司治理
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2022-10-18 DOI: 10.1177/00323292221126262
Benjamin Braun
{"title":"Exit, Control, and Politics: Structural Power and Corporate Governance under Asset Manager Capitalism","authors":"Benjamin Braun","doi":"10.1177/00323292221126262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00323292221126262","url":null,"abstract":"The power of finance vis-à-vis the nonfinancial sector is changing. Macroeconomic developments and financial innovations have reduced financial actors’ exit options, thus diminishing exit-based structural power. At the same time, shareholdings have become more concentrated in the hands of large asset managers, thus increasing control-based power. This article documents these trends, before examining whether asset managers wield their power and why, despite being universal shareholders, they have not steered corporate behavior toward decarbonization. Rather than assuming orderly, good-faith interactions between shareholders and managers, this article argues that in the United States today, political considerations govern the use of control-based power. Asset managers’ corporate governance policies are subservient to the—increasingly inconsistent—goals of maximizing assets under management while avoiding regulatory backlash. Unlike exit-based power, control-based power is constrained by being highly visible and, therefore, easily politicized.","PeriodicalId":47847,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Society","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2022-10-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41879097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 12
Domestic Bank Reform and the Contingent Nature of the Structural Power of Finance in Emerging Markets 国内银行改革与新兴市场金融结构力量的偶然性
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-28 DOI: 10.1177/00323292221125567
Florence Dafe, Lena Rethel
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引用次数: 1
Introduction: The Structural Power of Finance Meets Financialization 导论:金融的结构性力量与金融化
IF 2.4 2区 社会学
Politics & Society Pub Date : 2022-09-25 DOI: 10.1177/00323292221125563
Florence Dafe, S. Hager, Natalya Naqvi, Leon Wansleben
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引用次数: 3
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