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Corporate Political Power And Us Foreign Policy, 1981-2002: The Role Of The Policy-Planning Network, Philip Luther-Davies, Kasia Julia Doniec, Joseph P. Lavallee, G. William Domhoff, Lawrence P. King
Corporate Political Power And Us Foreign Policy, 1981-2002: The Role Of The Policy-Planning Network, Philip Luther-Davies, Kasia Julia Doniec, Joseph P. Lavallee, G. William Domhoff, Lawrence P. King
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Recent empirical work has offered strong support for ‘biased pluralism’ and ‘economic elite’ accounts of political power in the United States, according a central role to interest groups as a mechanism through which corporate influence is exerted. Here, we propose an additional channel of influence for corporate interests: the ‘policy-planning network,’ consisting of corporate- dominated foundations, think tanks, and elite policy-discussion groups. To evaluate this assertion, we coded the policy preferences of one key policy-discussion group, the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), on 295 foreign policy issues during the 1981-2002 period. In logistic regression analyses, the preferences of economic elites …