Corporate Power in Civil Society / David Sciulli.
Sciulli, David, author.
2001
KF1416 .S396 2001
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Title Corporate Power in Civil Society / David Sciulli.
Author Sciulli, David, author.
ISBN 9780814786604
Published New York, NY : New York University Press, [2001]
Copyright ©2001
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Call Number KF1416 .S396 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 346.73/066
Summary The corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated? Who has the authority to get things done in a corporation's name and who can be held legally responsible for a corporation's misbehavior? What role, if any, should the courts play in strengthening the rights of individuals who challenge the actions of big business? David Sciulli maps the legal limits of corporate power in our democratic society, and explores the role of the corporate judiciary in creating public policy. He argues that the judiciary must be more vigilant and act to curb corporate abuses. He demonstrates that when corporations exercise their private power in civil society, they are just as capable as the state of exercising it in ways that are dangerous, arbitrary, and challenge the basic institutional arrangements of society. Finally, Sciulli calls for sociologists to involve themselves more deeply in issues of corporate governance and commit their discipline to influencing the decisions of the courts.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Corporations and Civil Society: Institutional Externalities of Corporate Power
2. The Turbulence of the 1980s
I. Overview and Background
3. Contractarians and Imposers
4. Contractarians and Balancers
5. Major Delaware Decisions of the 1980s and 1990s
II. Sources of Judicial Drift
6. Why Contractarians Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior
7. Why Imposers Fail to Explain Judicial Behavior
8. Legislative Action: Stakeholder Balancing and Its Limits
9. Contractarian Reaction: Opting Out
III. Corporate Law and Judicial Practice in a Global Economy
10. America's Constitutional Court for Intermediary Associations
11. Beyond the Failures: A Threshold of Procedural Norms
12. Time-Warner and Institutional Externalities: From Culture to Form
13. Explaining and Predicting Judicial Behavior in a Global Economy
Notes
References
Index
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