Firm Interests: How Governments Shape Business Lobbying on Global Trade

by Cornelia Woll

Book Overview

Firms are central to trade policy-making. Some analysts even suggest that they dictate policy on the basis of their material interests. Cornelia Woll counters these assumptions, arguing that firms do not always know what they want. To be sure, firms lobby hard to attain a desired policy once they have defined their goals. Yet material factors are insufficient to account for these preferences. The ways in which firms are embedded in political settings...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446090
• ISBN13: 9780801446092
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.5" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher