Denise Benoit

The Best-Kept Secret

Women Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

From lobbyists such as Jack Abramoff, to corporate executives, like Enron's Kenneth Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, recent scandals dealing with politics and government have focused only on men at the top. But do these high-profile men accurately represent the gendered make up of corporate-government in the United States?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Juli 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 168mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780813540665
• ISBN-10: 0813540666
• Artikelnr.: 21489898

Autorenporträt

Benoit, Denise

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 From Private to Public Interests: Women's Entrance into Corporate
Lobbying
3 The Problem with No Name? Women's Interests, Corporate Power, and Public
Policy
4 Warm Springs and Hot Topics at the Tax Alliance Retreat: Doing Gender and
Doing Business
5 The Costs and Benefits of Family Ties
6 Women, Corporate Lobbying, and Power
Notes
References
Index