The corporate elite and the policy-planning ...
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Autre communication scientifique (congrès sans actes - poster - séminaire...): Communication dans un congrès sans actes
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Titre :
The corporate elite and the policy-planning network in France and in Portugal
Auteur(s) :
Comet, Catherine [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Varanda, Marta [Auteur]
Neves, Pedro [Auteur]
Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 [CLERSÉ]
Varanda, Marta [Auteur]
Neves, Pedro [Auteur]
Titre de la manifestation scientifique :
Sunbelt, INSNA Conference
Ville :
Brighton
Pays :
Royaume-Uni
Date de début de la manifestation scientifique :
2015
Discipline(s) HAL :
Sciences de l'Homme et Société/Sociologie
Résumé en anglais : [en]
In capitalist countries, large companies and business elites concentrate a considerable share of political power. Studying interlocking directorates has been used as soon as the early twentieth century to assess this ...
Lire la suite >In capitalist countries, large companies and business elites concentrate a considerable share of political power. Studying interlocking directorates has been used as soon as the early twentieth century to assess this concentration of power. However the cohesion of business elites is insufficient to explain their political influence. Given that policy-planning agencies are identified as locations of political power, we turn to these organizations to evaluate their linkages with large corporations. We aim to explore the ideological orientation of these relational investments. More precisely, we wonder if there is a strategy to promote a neoliberal ideology. We run a comparison between France and Portugal. In both countries, the development of policy-planning agencies is more recent and the dependencies towards the state more pronounced than in the US and in the UK. Policy-planning agencies are usually defined as non-profit organisations (allegedly) independent from political parties, state bureaucracy and companies, which perform studies and advocacy concerning topics such as social issues, economics or international strategy in order to influence the political agenda. The methodology is based on two bipartite networks. In France, the first network is composed of the 100 main companies and their directors, and the second of the 40 main policy-planning agencies and their trustees and counsellors. In Portugal, it is 125 and 34 respectively. We first analyze the relational proximity among policy-planning organizations according to their ideological proximity in France and in Portugal. We then turn to the role played by the directors of large companies in this network. We finally evaluate to what extent large companies are likely to privilege liberal and conservative agencies, given the appointments of their directors in these organizations. In both countries, the main feature of the policy-planning network resides in its core-periphery structure. In France, the core is polarized according to a left wing / right wing cleavage, while this cleavage is less clear in Portugal. However, in France, interlocks between large corporations and major policy-planning agencies often transcend these divisions. Moreover, in both countries, we observe the prevalence of non-partisan organizations.Lire moins >
Lire la suite >In capitalist countries, large companies and business elites concentrate a considerable share of political power. Studying interlocking directorates has been used as soon as the early twentieth century to assess this concentration of power. However the cohesion of business elites is insufficient to explain their political influence. Given that policy-planning agencies are identified as locations of political power, we turn to these organizations to evaluate their linkages with large corporations. We aim to explore the ideological orientation of these relational investments. More precisely, we wonder if there is a strategy to promote a neoliberal ideology. We run a comparison between France and Portugal. In both countries, the development of policy-planning agencies is more recent and the dependencies towards the state more pronounced than in the US and in the UK. Policy-planning agencies are usually defined as non-profit organisations (allegedly) independent from political parties, state bureaucracy and companies, which perform studies and advocacy concerning topics such as social issues, economics or international strategy in order to influence the political agenda. The methodology is based on two bipartite networks. In France, the first network is composed of the 100 main companies and their directors, and the second of the 40 main policy-planning agencies and their trustees and counsellors. In Portugal, it is 125 and 34 respectively. We first analyze the relational proximity among policy-planning organizations according to their ideological proximity in France and in Portugal. We then turn to the role played by the directors of large companies in this network. We finally evaluate to what extent large companies are likely to privilege liberal and conservative agencies, given the appointments of their directors in these organizations. In both countries, the main feature of the policy-planning network resides in its core-periphery structure. In France, the core is polarized according to a left wing / right wing cleavage, while this cleavage is less clear in Portugal. However, in France, interlocks between large corporations and major policy-planning agencies often transcend these divisions. Moreover, in both countries, we observe the prevalence of non-partisan organizations.Lire moins >
Langue :
Anglais
Audience :
Internationale
Établissement(s) :
Université de Lille
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
CNRS
Univ. Littoral Côte d’Opale
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