SWD-Schlagwörter: Interessenverband, Gesundheit, Gesundheitspolitik, Lobbyismus, Regulierung . - Freie Schlagwörter (Deutsch): Interessengruppen, Gesundheitsmarkt, Regulierung, politischer Druck, Lobbyismus. - Freie Schlagwörter (Englisch): interest groups, health care market, political...

What is the impact of business interest groups on the formulation of public social policies? This paper reviews the literature in political science, history, and sociology on this question. It identifies two strands: one analyzes the political power and influence of business, the other the...

Aufgrund der gestiegenen Komplexität der Umwelt ist es für den Gesetzgeber unerlässlich, Experten in die Entscheidungsfindungsphase einzubeziehen, um funktionsfähige Regelwerke zu erstellen. Diese Spezialisten sind in der Theorie in Informationslieferanten und Interessensvertreter zu...

Cover -- Introduction -- A. Interest groups, pluralism, stagflation, and institutional sclerosis -- A. I. 'The Rise and Decline of Nations' - challenges to the welfare state -- A. II. Mancur Olson's view on democracy and the rentseeking society -- A. III. The Logic of Collective Action -- A....

Introduction -- Energy crises and agenda setting -- Public opinion during an energy crisis -- The question of trust -- The Yom Kippur Arab-Israeli War: the crisis of 1973-74 -- The Iranian oil crisis: 1979-1980 -- The Persian Gulf War: 1990-1991 -- The era of peak oil energy prices: the oil...

Adversarial relations? : business and politics in twentieth-century America / Richard R.. John -- Trade associations, state building, and the Sherman Act : the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, 1912-25 / Laura Phillips Sawyer -- Toward a civic welfare state : business and city building in the 1920s /...

"An inside look at the secretive world of elite philanthropists--and how they're quietly wielding ever more power to shape American life in ways both good and bad. While media attention focuses on famous philanthropists such as Bill Gates and Charles Koch, thousands of donors are at work below...