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Social influences on corporate political donations in Britain 1
Author(s) -
Bond Matthew
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
the british journal of sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.826
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 1468-4446
pISSN - 0007-1315
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-4446.2004.00006.x
Subject(s) - politics , donation , collective action , action (physics) , state (computer science) , control (management) , mobilization , political mobilization , political economy , political science , business , public relations , law and economics , economics , law , management , computer science , physics , algorithm , quantum mechanics
It is argued that institutional features of the British state create collective action problems for the mobilization of corporations as donors to the Conservative Party. Social factors are necessary for overcoming these problems. Using social network analyses, the effect that interlocking directorates have on 250 large British corporations’ decisions to donate are analysed. Instead of the central mobilizing factor being diffuse inner circle mechanisms positively influencing the decision to make a donation, the results show that more particularistic mechanisms such as information bias and control are equally important.