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Richard Black on what's happening to our shared environment
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Business as International Politics: Drawing Insights from Nation-State to Inter-Firm Alliances
This paper broadens the scope and depth of business alliance research by way of interdisciplinary enrichment. The paper draws on the political science literature on nation-state alliances to generate insights into the establishment, operations and perform ...
Experts: Answers on oil spill in the Gulf, not Congress
As a Senate committee was grilling oil industry executives about the oil spill, experts said there is an opportunity to learn from the catastrophe, but the lessons won't come from Congress. ...
3 things to watch in Tuesday's races
Most people following the primaries are a lot more excited about the races coming up next week than those taking place on Tuesday. ...
Local Political Elite, Partial Reform Symptoms, and the Business and Market Environment in Rural China
In this article we examine how Chinese local officials impact rural business environment and market development since the late 1990s. If their power is not effectively checked by village elections, local political elite are able to manipulate reform polic ...
Beau Biden suffers apparent mild stroke, doctors say
Delaware Attorney General Beau Biden -- the son of Vice President Joe Biden -- has suffered what doctors believe to be a mild stroke, according to the hospital. ...
Today: nbsp;Special House Election In Ga., Mollohan Challenged In W.Va. Primary
There are primaries in two states today, Nebraska and West Virginia, and a special congressional election in Georgia's 9th District, where Nathan Deal (R) resigned to run for governor. ...
Networks of Coordination: Swiss Business Associations as an Intermediary between Business, Politics and Administration during the 20th Century
Until the 1990's, Switzerland could be classified as either a corporatist, cooperative or coordinated market economy where non-market mechanisms of coordination among economic and political actors were very important. In this respect, Business Interest As ...
Who Supports Compensation? Individual Preferences for Trade-Related Unemployment Insurance
The political economy of trade literature argues that the policy of compensating those who lose from trade is an important component of maintaining public support for free-trade, a linkage known as the compensation hypothesis or embedded liberalism thesis ...
The Firm as an Inspector: Private Ordering and Political Rules
With increasing fragmentation of worldwide production chains and the corresponding contracting relations between companies, the "firm as an inspector" has become a frequent phenomenon. Buyer firms deploy supervising activities over their suppliers' produc ...
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