The Strategic Use of Public Policy: Business Support for the 1906 Food and Drug Act

1985 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Donna J. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Federal Food ◽  
New Development ◽  
Business Support ◽  
Drug Regulations ◽  
Foreign Commerce

The 1906 Food and Drug Act is widely believed to be an early example of federal legislation designed entirely to protect consumers. Professor Wood shows that in fact many Progressive Era food and drug manufacturers had substantial interests in achieving passage of such a law and that they worked actively toward this end. In particular, the desire of businesspeople to secure advantage over domestic competitors and to expand markets to interstate and foreign commerce played a significant role in businesses' support for federal food and drug regulations. The article shows that the strategic use of public policy by business—a relatively recent development in theories of business-government relations—is by no means a new development in practice.

How Worker Centers Organize Low-Wage Workers: An Exploration of Targets and Strategies

2021 ◽  
pp. 0160449X2198942
Author(s):  
Jessica Garrick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Service Provision ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Worker Centers ◽  
Center Staff ◽  
Community Based Organizations ◽  
Worker Center

In response to the growing absence of unions from the private sector, community-based organizations known as worker centers have emerged as a new front in protecting and organizing workers. Scholars generally argue that worker centers have converged on a model of combining service provision with organizing and advocacy, supported primarily by funding from foundations and government agencies. I draw on interviews conducted with worker center staff, a dataset compiled from their public materials, and secondary research to add to the existing literature and to argue that a clear categorization of worker centers can be derived by attention to their primary workplace strategies. First, worker centers can be meaningfully distinguished by whether they attempt to raise standards in specific industries versus responding to problems in individual workplaces. But they can also be distinguished based on the extent to which they view public policy or winning agreements with employers as the primary route to systemic improvements. These divergences in strategy echo Progressive-era debates about the role for the state in redressing workplace ills. Similar to that era, strategic differences among today’s worker centers are driven less by ideology and more by the distinct structural challenges facing workers in particular political and economic contexts.

The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era

1987 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 169
Author(s):  
J. Morgan Kousser ◽  
Richard L. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
American Politics

Are “Stranger Donors” Irrational?

2021 ◽  
pp. 55-60
Author(s):  
Martha Gershun ◽  
John D. Lantos
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
United Kingdom ◽  
The United States ◽  
Federal Legislation ◽  
Organ Donors ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Transplant Registry ◽  
Altruistic Donor ◽  
Psychological Benefit

This chapter seeks to understand the motivations of people who offered to donate a kidney to a stranger. It explores the degree of emotional relationship that was essential to justify the claim that donation provided a psychological benefit to the donor. The chapter also mentions a law in the United Kingdom called the Unrelated Live Transplant Registry Authority which required organ donors to provide proof that they had a relationship with the recipient. In the United States, however, there is no federal legislation or public policy regulating stranger donors. The chapter then turns to discuss a study led by nephrologist Aaron Spital showing how attitudes within the transplant community gradually shifted from almost universal rejection of stranger donors to their gradual acceptance. It assesses the struggles that nephrologists went through in trying to determine whether such altruists were noble or irrational. Ultimately, the chapter offers a unique glimpse into the motivations of an altruistic donor and into the forms of skepticism that doctors and psychologists bring to evaluations of such donors.

scholarly journals New development: What works now? Continuity and change in the use of evidence to improve public policy and service delivery

2019 ◽  
Vol 39 (4) ◽  
pp. 310-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Nutley ◽  
Annette Boaz ◽  
Huw Davies ◽  
Alec Fraser
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Service Delivery ◽  
Continuity And Change ◽  
What Works ◽  
New Development

Corporate Social Responsibility, Government, and Civil Society

2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeremy Moon ◽  
David Vogel
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Corporate Social Responsibility ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Social Responsibility ◽  
Growth And Development ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Government Relations ◽  
Corporate Social ◽  
The Relationship

This article examines the role of governments and civil society in shaping and encouraging corporate social responsibility (CSR). It begins by exploring the relationship between CSR and particular patterns of business–government–civil society relations. It then examines the patterns of business–government relations that are associated with CSR. It explores two basic models. One is the dichotomous view that posits that CSR and government are, by definition, mutually exclusive; accordingly, the scope of CSR is defined by the absence of regulation and public policy. The second posits that CSR is the relationship between market actors and governments. This article also investigates changes in business–government–civil society relations which explain the recent growth and development of CSR. Finally, it examines the ways in which governments have promoted CSR and the relationship between responsible public and private policies.

How Small Business Enterprises of Russia Attract Investments: Practices and Problems

10.12737/5966 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (5) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Фомичева ◽  
Irina Fomicheva
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Small Business ◽  
Exchange Rates ◽  
Interest Rates ◽  
Growth Rates ◽  
Small Businesses ◽  
Foreign Investments ◽  
Inflation Rates ◽  
Business Support ◽  
Capital Financing

Considered are possible sources of real investments for small businesses. It is shown how foreign investments in Russia make shifts towards securities market. Dynamics and structure of domestic sources of debt funds for fixed capital financing are examined. Considerable growth rates of the volume of investments is emphasized as well as growing number of sources of financing with substantial share of budgetary funds in the total amount of investment. Factors conducive to investment activities are outlined. Dynamics of mortgage lending, as the author shows, is not actually impacted neither by the dynamics of interest rates, nor by exchange rates ratio and inflation rates in Russia, while underuse of budgetary funds allocated for programs of small and medium business support proves that public policy in this sphere is inefficient.

Jeremiah Jenks: A Pioneer of Industrial Organization?

2004 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-89 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Howard Brown
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Economic Theory ◽  
Industrial Organization ◽  
Economic Analysis ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
Gilded Age ◽  
Relative Neglect ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Subject

Jeremiah Whittle Jenks currently ranks as one of the more obscure academic economists of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. While other prominent economists of the era such as Richard T. Ely and John Bates Clark have been the subject of many books and articles (Everett 1946, Rader 1966, and Henry 1996, for example) Jenks remains almost unknown and unheralded. For instance, he is scarcely mentioned in the relevant volume of Joseph Dorfman's The Economic Mind in American Civilization (Dorfman 1948, III), despite his very substantial scholarly and public roles in the economics of the day. He was likewise below the radar of Joseph A. Schumpeter's (1954) magisterial, History of Economic Analysis, and Mark Blaug's (1985) Economic Theory in Retrospect. Where Jenks's career has attracted scholarly notice, the aspects examined have focused less on his economic scholarship and more on his public policy roles. (Green 1956, Weinstein 1968, Furner 1975, Parrini and Sklar 1983) The reasons for Jenks's relative neglect are unclear, although several hypotheses will be entertained below.

The Party Period and Public Policy: American Politics from the Age of Jackson to the Progressive Era

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 1038
Author(s):  
Walter Nugent ◽  
Richard L. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Progressive Era ◽  
American Politics
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