POLS 3470 Study Guide - Corporate Social Responsibility, Eastern Canada, Campaign Finance

• School: University of Guelph
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 3470
• Professor: Tim Mau

Document Summary

Reasons for interest in business-government relations: power of business. Business is this powerful player, they are ultimate trying to compete for government attention: business holds a tremendous amount of power, it has the power to dominate all other areas of society, increased business political activity. In the 1960"s the way business influenced the political world was hidden the the public. Pac political action committees in the 1970"s changed that they began to come out into the open. Historically the state did not intervene in business that much. There are several differences between different businesses" you need to look at the policy and history of different businesses: value of comparative research i. It is important to compare between what we do in our county to what other countries to to understand how business and government interact in different countries. Just because this is a political science course we need to look at different research from the business world.