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How Corporations Govern: Taking Corporate Power Seriously In Transnational Regulation And Governance, Dan Danielsen

Dan Danielsen

It would seem to be a relatively uncontroversial claim among scholars, activists,and policymakers that corporations are significant contributors to the shape and content of national and transnational regulation and that their contributions have significant effects on social welfare. Yet, despite this general consensus, scholars have focused little attention on explicating the precise mechanisms through which corporations contribute to transnational regulation and governance or the extent to which the social welfare effects of regulation and policy may be attributable to corporate activity. In this Article, I suggest the broad contours of a methodology for beginning to think about the question, “How …