{"product_id":"stuck-in-neutral-9780691009612","title":"Stuck in Neutral","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAccording to conventional wisdom, big business wields enormous influence over America's political agenda and is responsible for the relatively limited scale of the country's social policies. This book challenges that view, arguing that big business has limited involvement in social policy and in many instances desires broader social interventions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Whether big business has been stuck in neutral or just parked beside issues of secondary interest, Martin's book encourages us to review what we think we know about business and the policy process.\"--Neil J. Mitchell, Governance\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix  LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS xi  Introduction 3  ONE Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment 20  TWO A Century of Business Involvement in Social Provision 65  THREE Nature or Nurture? Company Preferences for National Health Reform 94  Appendix to Chapter Three  FOUR On the Bus: Business Organization in Training and Work-Family Issues 139  FIVE The Least-Common-Denominator Business Community: Corporate Engagement with Health Policy 168  SIX United We Stand: Corporate Engagement with Training Policy 190  SEVEN An Affair to Remember: Small Business and the Republican Party against Family Leave 219  EIGHT Implications for Our Economic Future 240  INDEX 257","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403673117015,"sku":"9780691009612","price":43.2,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/stuck-in-neutral-9780691009612","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}