The determinants of corporate political activity in Australia

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Large corporations in Australia have shifted from limited to more fulsome engagement in political activity (CPA) in recent decades. The paper argues that this reflects corporate institutional change in response to wider changes in the environment that have included growing government intervention, increased industry concentration and intra-sectoral competition, and a more complex and challenging discursive and issues environment. Quantitative and regression-based analysis of the drivers of CPA are employed and the analysis is extended and deepened with material drawn from interviews with twenty-five corporate government relations professionals.

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Item Type:	Article
Authors/Creators:	Bell, S. Hindmoor, A. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0335-2509 Umashev, N.
Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information:	© 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Keywords:	Government relations; corporate political activity; lobbying; institutional change; political influence
Dates:	Published: December 2023 Published (online): 10 July 2023 Accepted: 25 June 2023
Institution:	The University of Sheffield
Academic Units:	The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Politics and International Relations (Sheffield)
Depositing User:	Symplectic Sheffield
Date Deposited:	06 Jul 2023 08:28
Last Modified:	04 Oct 2024 13:49
Status:	Published
Publisher:	Taylor and Francis Group
Refereed:	Yes
Identification Number:	10.1080/10361146.2023.2231893
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID):	oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:201135

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