… American organization of the 21st century. Enabling managers to understand the profound
… in the American economy and to tap into them for success, The Democratic Corporation is a …

… call “corporate democracy.” Some American critics have labelled corporate democracy an
… Theirs has, in effect, been a search for a representative form of democracy in the corporation…

… Ever since the modern corporation came on the American … At inception corporations were
disproportionately owned and … Yet in the majority of large corporations, by the 1920s de facto …

… result, American democracy has eroded so seriously that perhaps we have already become
a post-democratic … But as we shall see, given corporate control of the media, this is difficult to …

… to antitrust make a more democratic economy unlawful.The … : democratic voice in the
economy is embedded in American … history of democracy in America at work: in corporate board …

… As the essays in this volume make clear, the relationship between the American corporation
and American democracy has been anything but simple, singular, or uniform. Not only has …

… And don't corporations exist to make money for shareholders? Moreover, in each case, we
see the free market at work; the corporation is exercising its bargaining power to get the best …

… the American corporation. Nace explodes the myth of inevitability surrounding the corporate
… What happens when corporate America finds its wishes thwarted by constitutional barriers? …

… Given the fact that no single corporation currently has a market … threat that corporate power
poses to democracy are premature… Moreover, while American democracy may still be in good …

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pervasive and often hidden-power of corporate special interests." -Senator Elizabeth Warren …