Forestalling the Business Veto: Investment Confidence and the Rise of Swedish Social Democracy, 1932-1936

Business and Social Policy: A Case Study of the Adoption of Workers’ Compensation in Israel

“…The role of business in the formulation of social policy is the subject of growing scholarly scrutiny (Steinmetz 1990;Jacoby 1993;Martin 1995;Hacker and Pierson 2000;Mares 2000;Hall and Soskice 2001;Manow 2001;Swank and Martin 2001;Swenson and Greer 2002;Anderson and Snow 2003;Klein 2003). In historical studies in the United States, workers' compensation is often considered a prime, and perhaps unusually successful, example of early business involvement in the passage of social reform (Weinstein 1967).…”