POLS 3470 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: American Exceptionalism, Labor Unrest, United States Chamber Of Commerce
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Regulation; 3) unions: government more activist/interventionist, efforts to promote unionization. Manufacturers only: us chamber of commerce. Overly aligned with right-wing politics: business roundtable. Nam and chamber too closely aligned with republican politics. 16 million employees: national federation of independent business. Business never confronted by any serious challenge like: business interests fragmented, impossible for gov to provide access to businesses when creating, no interest group guaranteed a monopoly policy. Organization of british business interests: similar to the us, government departments preferred to deal with single. Interest group: favoured groups given inside status, discourage competitors in policy making process, confederation of british industry (cbi, regular and privileged access to all gov departments, secure position in policy making process, peak association, but weak. No legal or moral requirement for individual companies to be apart of trade associations and none for trade associations to be part of cbi.