David Coen is Professor of Public Policy at University College London. Prior to joining UCL he held appointments at the London Business School and Max Planck Institute in Cologne and was awarded a PhD at the European University Institute, Florence. In recent years he has been a Fulbright distinguished scholar at the Centre for European Studies, Harvard University and visiting fellow at Max Planck Institute, Cologne. His research is recently embedded in the development of models and processes of EU public policy and business government relations. Recent books include Refining Regulatory Regimes: Utilities in Europe (Edward Elgar, 2005) with Adrienne Hertier; EU Lobbying: Theoretical and Empirical Developments (Routledge, 2007); and Lobbying the European Union: Institutions, Actors and Processes (OUP, 2009) edited with Jeremy Richardson.

Wyn Grant is Professor of Politics at the University of Warwick. He has written on government-business relations since the 1970s, including a path-breaking study of the CBI with David Marsh (1977) and a well-regarded book on Business and Politics in Britain. (1987, 2nd edition 1993). He has also written extensively on trade policy, agricultural policy, economic policy and environmental policy. He is a member of the executive committee of the International Political Science Association and was formerly chair of the UK Political Studies Association. His more recent research has been based on interdisciplinary cooperation with biological scientists in projects on biological alternatives to chemical pesticides and the management of cattle diseases.

Graham Wilson is Professor of Political Science at Boston University and is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison where he taught for twenty-five years. He was educated in the UK and began his career at the University of Essex. He has studied business and politics for the last thirty years and is the author of Business and Politics: A Comparative Introduction which has appeared in three editions. He has edited Governance and The British Journal of Political Science.

• Overview


• Part 1: Disciplinary Perspectives


• 1: David Coen, Wyn Grant, and Graham Wilson: Political Science: Perspectives on Business and Government


• 2: Christos Pitelis: Economics: Economic Theories of the Firm, Business, and Government


• 3: Gregory Shaffer: Law and Business


• 4: Jonathan Story and Thomas Lawton: Business Studies: The Global Dynamics of Business-State Relations


• Section 2: Firm and State


• 5: Bob Hancké: Varieties of Capitalism and Business


• 6: Colin Crouch: The Global Firm: The Problem of the Giant Firm in Democratic Capitalism


• 7: David Hart: Political Theory of the Firm


• 8: Graham Wilson and Wyn Grant: Business and Political Parties


• 9: Torben Iversen and David Soskice: Economic Interests and Political Representation: Coordination and Distributive Conflict in Historical Perspective


• 10: Philippe C. Schmitter: Business and Neo-corporatism


• Part 3: Comparative Business Systems


• 11: Timothy Werner and Graham Wilson: Business Representation in Washington, DC


• 12: David Coen: European Business-Government Relations


• 13: Ben Ross Schneider: Business Politics in Latin America: Patterns of Fragmentation and Centralization


• 14: Yukihiko Hamada: Japanese Business-Government Relations


• 15: Jonathan Story: China and the Multinational Experience


• Part 4: Changing Market Governance


• 16: Michael Moran: The Rise of the Regulatory State


• 17: Michelle Egan and Pamela Camerra-Rowe: International Regulators and Network Governance


• 18: Timothy J. Sinclair: Credit Rating Agencies


• 19: Tim Büthe and Walter Mattli: International Standards and Standard Setting Bodies


• 20: David Vogel: Taming Globalization? Civil Regulation and Corporate Capitalism


• Part 5: Policy


• 21: Pepper D. Culpepper: Corporate Control and Managerial Power


• 22: Jeremy Moon, Nahee Kang, and Jean-Pascal Gond: Corporate Social Responsibility and Government


• 23: Jason Heyes and Helen Rainbird: The State, Business, and Training


• 24: Cathie Joe Martin: Social Policy and Business


• 25: Carsten Greve: Private-Public Partnerships in Business and Government


• 26: Francis J. Greene and David J. Storey: Entrepreneurship and Small Business Policy: Evaluating its Role and Purpose


• 27: Gunnar Trumbull: Consumer Policy: Business and the Politics of Consumption


• 28: Jill J. McCluskey and Johan Swinnen: Media Economics and the Political Economy of Information


• 29: Wyn Grant: Environmental and Food Safety Policy


• 30: Martin Chick: Network Utilities: Technological Development, Market Structure, and Forms of Ownership


• 31: Christopher S. P. Magee and Stephen P. Magee: Endogenous Trade Protection: A Survey


• 32: Stephen Wilks: Competition Policy