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Corporate Diplomacy: A Neo-Institutional Public Relations Perspective (Organisationskommunikation)
by Sarah MarschlichThis Open-Access book investigates corporate diplomacy as a legitimation strategy of multinational companies in the United Arab Emirates. The author applies a neo-institutional public relations perspective, according to which societal expectations significantly shape corporate diplomacy communication. Using a multi-method research design, the author shows how corporate diplomacy is used in the host country, what role local media coverage and relationship management fulfill, and what effects corporate diplomacy has on corporate legitimacy in the host country community, i.e., UAE residents. The findings provide substantial insights into how multinational corporations seek legitimacy through corporate diplomacy and demonstrate how these efforts and the legitimation of corporations are affected by the media and the host country's public.
Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence
by Francis T. Cullen Gray Cavender William J. Maakestad Michael L. BensonIn exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation. They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prison.
Corporate Crime Under Attack: The Fight to Criminalize Business Violence
by Francis T. Cullen Gray Cavender William J. Maakestad Michael L. BensonIn exploring the criminalization of corporations, this book uses the landmark "Ford Pinto case" as a centerpiece for exploring corporate violence and the long effort to bring such harm within the reach of the criminal law. Corporations that illegally endanger human life now must negotiate the surveillance of government regulators and risk civil suits from injured parties seeking financial compensation. They also may be charged with criminal offenses and their officials sent to prison.
Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets
by Cornelia WollThe geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations. Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines. Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries. In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach. As governments abroad seek to respond to US law enforcement actions against their companies, they turn to flexible legal instruments that allow prosecutors to settle a case rather than bring it to court. With her analysis of the international and domestic politics of law enforcement targeting big business, Woll traces the rise of what she calls “negotiated corporate justice” in global markets.Woll charts the path to this shift through case studies of geopolitical tensions and accusations of “economic lawfare,” pitting the United States against the European Union, China, and Japan. She then examines the reactions to the new legal landscape, describing institutional changes in the common law countries of the United Kingdom and Canada and the civil law countries of France, Brazil, and Germany. Through an insightful interdisciplinary analysis of how the prosecution of corporate crime has evolved in the twenty-first century, Woll demonstrates the profound transformation of the relationship between states and private actors in world markets, showing that law is part of economic statecraft in the connected global economy.
Corporate Crime and Punishment: The Politics of Negotiated Justice in Global Markets
by Cornelia WollThe geopolitics of American law enforcement and how it changed corporate criminal accountability in other countriesOver the past decade, many of the world’s biggest companies have found themselves embroiled in legal disputes over corruption, fraud, environmental damage, tax evasion, or sanction violations. Corporations including Volkswagen, BP, and Credit Suisse have paid record-breaking fines. Many critics of globalization and corporate impunity cheer this turn toward accountability. Others, however, question American dominance in legal battles that seem to impose domestic legal norms beyond national boundaries. In this book, Cornelia Woll examines the politics of American corporate criminal law’s extraterritorial reach. As governments abroad seek to respond to US law enforcement actions against their companies, they turn to flexible legal instruments that allow prosecutors to settle a case rather than bring it to court. With her analysis of the international and domestic politics of law enforcement targeting big business, Woll traces the rise of what she calls “negotiated corporate justice” in global markets.Woll charts the path to this shift through case studies of geopolitical tensions and accusations of “economic lawfare,” pitting the United States against the European Union, China, and Japan. She then examines the reactions to the new legal landscape, describing institutional changes in the common law countries of the United Kingdom and Canada and the civil law countries of France, Brazil, and Germany. Through an insightful interdisciplinary analysis of how the prosecution of corporate crime has evolved in the twenty-first century, Woll demonstrates the profound transformation of the relationship between states and private actors in world markets, showing that law is part of economic statecraft in the connected global economy.
Corporate Crime: A Reference Handbook (Contemporary World Issues)
by Richard D. HartleyCorporate Crime examines the ever-present problem of white-collar and corporate crime, not only within the United States but also worldwide.Should corporations and their employees be held criminally liable for shoddy business practices? This volume explores both sides of the question, discussing the nature and scope of corporate crime, the controversies surrounding it, and the most promising solutions. How do we define corporate crime and how do we detect it? Corporate Crime guides readers through the definitions and concepts as well as the difficulties in detecting, prosecuting, and punishing corporate wrongdoing.How do corporations get away with their crimes? This reference examines both the successes and the failures of government and law enforcement policies concerning the punishment of corporate crime and explores leading contemporary proposals for controlling and deterring it. It is an essential information source for any citizen of corporate America.
Corporate Conservatives Go to War: How the National Association of Manufacturers Planned to Restore American Free Enterprise, 1939–1948 (Palgrave Studies in American Economic History)
by Charlie WhithamWorld War II presented a unique opportunity for American business to improve its reputation after years of censure for inflicting the Great Depression upon the nation. No employers’ organization worked harder or devoted greater resources to reviving business prestige during the war than the National Association of Manufacturers, which spent millions of dollars on promoting the indispensability of private enterprise to the successful mobilization of the American economy in an uncompromising multi-media campaign which spanned the factory floor to the movie theatre. Now, using unpublished primary sources, the full extent of the NAM’s wartime mission to raise the stature of American business in the post-war era is revealed. During the war the NAM erected a vast structure of research on an unprecedented scale numbering more than one hundred persons dedicated to planning the best solutions for restoring American ‘free enterprise’ capitalism after the war in a direct challenge to the ‘liberal’ prescriptions of the reigning administration. These studies were painstakingly assembled and widely distributed and served as a complimentary arm to the better-known pro-business propaganda message of the organization. What emerges is a unique and telling glimpse into the minds of the corporate class of wartime America that reveals the determination of a major employers’ organization to exploit the exceptional circumstances of total war to influence both the power-brokers in Washington who wrote economic policy and the American public as a whole to embrace a post-war future ruled by private enterprise capitalism.
Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation: Evidence from the London Session of the Russell Tribunal on Palestine
by Asa Winstanley Frank BaratThe Russell Tribunal on Palestine is a people's tribunal in the spirit of the Tribunal on Vietnam that was set up by Bertrand Russell in the 1960s. This book contains a selection of the most vital evidence and testimonies presented at the London session. It includes the papers submitted to the tribunal, written by expert witnesses, based on their detailed research into the companies that prop-up Israeli occupation.*BR**BR*Examining the involvement of corporations in the illegal occupation of Palestinian land by Israel, the tribunal of 2010 generated widespread media coverage. The book identifies companies and corporations participating in such illegality and possibilities for legal action against them are discussed.*BR**BR*Released to coincide with the South Africa session at the end of 2011, Corporate Complicity in Israel's Occupation is a vital resource to lawyers, journalists and activists hoping to take informed action against Israeli war crimes and occupation.
Corporate Community Relations: The Principle of the Neighbor of Choice
by Edmund M. BurkeBurke challenges the current thesis that companies should act responsibly toward communities and societies. Instead, he shows that changes in society mandate that companies must develop strategies and programs that foster a reputation of trust in local communities in order that they preserve their license to operate. Burke describes strategies and programs of action that enable companies to develop trust and thus maintain their license to operate. He also describes ways to use philanthropy and volunteer programs to achieve a competitive advantage.The public environment in which companies operate has changed significantly since the 1970s. Communities, in response to elected officials and community groups, are demanding that companies observe new norms of behavior. They expect companies to respect the environment, respond to the concerns of the community residents, and contribute to the support of community institutions. As Burke illustrates, a company's community reputation also affects the behavior of consumers and employees. Consumers prefer to buy products from companies that are involved in the community. Employees are attracted to companies that have a good community reputation.Just as successful companies need to be a supplier of choice, an employer of choice, and an investor of choice, they now have to become a neighbor of choice. They have to behave in ways that build a legacy of trust in order to be positioned positively in the community. As Burke shows, to be a neighbor of choice, a company has to pursue three strategies: build sustainable and ongoing relationships with key community individuals, groups, and organizations; institute procedures that anticipate and respond to community expectations, concerns, needs, and issues; and focus the company's community programs on ways that promote and strengthen the community's quality of life and which also support the business goals of the company. The strategies developed by Burke will be of great use to community and public affairs managers and general managers of corporations as well as CEOs and other executive officers. Students in courses on corporate strategy and general management will find the book of value, as will students in courses on non-profit management.
Corporate Climate Action, Transnational Politics, and World Order (Environmental Politics and Theory)
by Charlotte HulmeThis book explores the origins and significance of the corporate climate action phenomenon, which has attracted increased attention in recent years. It examines how and why, during the 2010s, American, German, and Indian corporations spanning finance, technology, automotive, and energy-intensive industries adopted certain climate practices and converged around the idea that the private sector has a vital role to play in addressing climate change and advancing a low-carbon future. It also considers how policy developments that states widely understood as watersheds, including the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, simply confirmed what the private sector had long believed: that states lacked answers about how to achieve concerted, ambitious, and effective climate action. It was in this context, amid diminishing expectations for robust state climate action, that select corporations sought to fill a perceived leadership vacuum in an issue area poised to shape future global trends. Providing a novel assessment of the corporate sector as a climate actor, this book evaluates how the shift in the center of gravity in the climate change issue area away from national governments and toward other players may influence world order and impact an international security landscape increasingly defined by non-military challenges.
Corporate Citizenship in Deutschland und den USA: Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede im gesellschaftlichen Engagement von Unternehmen und das Potential eines transatlantischen Transfers (neue betriebswirtschaftliche forschung (nbf))
by Matthias FifkaMatthias S. Fifka untersucht, inwieweit sich das bürgerschaftliche Engagement von Unternehmen in Deutschland und den USA unterscheidet und in welchem Maße aufgrund der verschiedenen gesellschaftlichen, wirtschaftlichen und politischen Rahmenbedingungen ein transatlantischer Transfer von Corporate Citizenship möglich ist.
Corporate Citizenship in Deutschland: Gesellschaftliches Engagement von Unternehmen. Bilanz und Perspektiven (Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie)
by Holger Backhaus-Maul Christiane Biedermann Stefan Nährlich Judith PolterauerDie Wirtschaft und ihre Unternehmen prägen moderne Gesellschaften. Die aktuelle Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise hat diese Entwicklung nochmals verstärkt. Damit rückt die grundlegende Frage in den Mittelpunkt des öffentlichen Interesses, welche gesellschaftliche Rolle Unternehmen als Corporate Citizen zukünftig übernehmen können, wollen und sollen. Was zeichnet das gesellschaftliche Engagement von Unternehmen als Corporate Citizen aus? Wohin kann diese Entwicklung führen? Mit diesen Fragen erschließt der Band innovative Sichtweisen und zeigt viel versprechende Perspektiven für die in Deutschland lebhaft geführte - und zugleich auch globale - Debatte über die neue gesellschaftliche Rolle von Unternehmen auf. Über 50 Autorinnen und Autoren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Medien und Gesellschaftspolitik leisten in der aktualisierten und erweiterten zweiten Auflage eine umfassende Bilanz. Erstmals werden sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Debatten, fachliche Expertisen, unternehmerische Überlegungen sowie gesellschaftspolitische Analysen zusammengeführt. Der Band lädt so zu einer differenzierten Auseinandersetzung mit dem zukunftsträchtigen Thema Corporate Citizenship ein.
Corporate Citizenship in Deutschland: Bilanz und Perspektiven (Bürgergesellschaft und Demokratie)
by Holger Backhaus-Maul Christiane Biedermann Stefan Nährlich Judith PolterauerMit dem Rückgang staatlichen Handelns und der in das Alltagsleben von Bürgern wirkenden wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung rückt auch das bürgerschaftliche Engagement von Unternehmen in Deutschland in das öffentliche Interesse. Damit wird die grundsätzliche Frage nach der Rolle von Unternehmen in der heutigen Gesellschaft virulent, die unter dem international gebräuchlichen Begriff „Corporate Citizenship“ diskutiert wird. Was zeichnet Corporate Citizenship aus? Wohin kann die Entwicklung führen? Mit diesen Fragen erschließt der Band neue Sichtweisen und zeigt wichtige Perspektiven für die in Deutschland geführte Debatte über Unternehmen in der Gesellschaft auf. Über 40 Autoren aus Wissenschaft, Wirtschaft, Medien und Gesellschaftspolitik leisten eine umfassende Zwischenbilanz. Erstmals werden sozial- und wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Debatten, fachliche Expertisen sowie gesellschaftspolitische Analysen zusammengeführt. Der Band lädt so zu einer differenzierten Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema ein.
Corporate Citizenship im Nachwuchsleistungssport: Perspektiven deutscher Großunternehmen
by Sebastian Braun Marcel PillathDer Nachwuchsleistungssport in Deutschland ist mit einem Abbau staatlicher Unterstützungsleistungen konfrontiert. Zugleich hat das Sportsponsoring durch Großunternehmen jenseits des Spitzensports enge Grenzen. Insofern suchen zahlreiche Akteure wie Verbände, Vereine, Stiftungen oder Sportschulen, die an der Produktion sportlicher Höchstleistungen von jungen Athletinnen und Athleten beteiligt sind, alternative Kooperationsformen mit der Wirtschaft. Dabei scheinen sich speziell Großunternehmen im Zuge internationaler Debatten über „Corporate Citizenship“ zunehmend für ein gesellschaftliches Engagement zur längerfristigen Lösung gesellschaftlicher Herausforderungen auch im Sport zu öffnen, um in Kooperation mit gemeinnützigen Akteuren den „Business Case“ mit dem „Social Case“ zu verbinden. Auf der Basis qualitativer Experteninterviews analysieren die Autoren Sichtweisen und Positionen von Sponsoring-, Public Relations- und CSR-Beauftragten im Hinblick auf Corporate Citizenship-Engagements im Nachwuchsleistungssport.
Corporate Citizenship and New Governance: The Political Role of Corporations (Ethical Economy #40)
by Ingo Pies and Peter KoslowskiThis volume unites the perspective of business ethics with approaches from strategic management, economics, law, political science, and with philosophical reflections on the theory of Corporate Citizenship and New Governance. In view of the internationalization of the (global) economy and the free movement of capital, new instruments of political coordination are needed. These societal changes trigger the two closely intertwined challenges examined in this book. The first challenge relates to the role and the self-conceptualization of business firms as corporate citizens within society. Companies are increasingly expected to assume the social responsibility of helping to shape the rule-framework of globalization. The second challenge refers to the form of the engagement in local, national and international processes of governance. To more credibly and effectively tackle these challenges, corporate actors are ever more participating in rule-setting processes together with civil society organizations and the government.
Corporate Citizenship: Gesellschaftliches Engagement von Unternehmen in Deutschland (Unternehmen und Gesellschaft)
by André HabischCorporate Citizenship - unternehmerisches Bürgerengagement - ist Gegenstand einer wachsenden Diskussion im In- und Ausland. Es formuliert Herausforderungen an die strategische Unternehmensführung, in der Kooperation mit unternehmensexternen Partnern aktiv gesellschaftliche Probleme anzugehen. Unternehmen profitieren in vielfältiger Weise von bereichsübergreifenden Netzwerken, bedürfen aber zu deren Aufbau und Pflege ganz eigener Kompetenzen. Die Bewerbungen um den Unternehmenspreis der Initiative "Freiheit und Verantwortung", die dem Band zugrunde liegen, bilden die umfangreichste Darstellung von "best practices" deutscher Unternehmen. Sie verbinden sich mit einem Überblick über hochaktuelle Dokumente und Initiativen zur Thematik auf nationaler und internationaler Ebene: ein Standardwerk zu einer immer wichtiger werdenden Thematik.
Corporate Capitalism and the Integral State: General Electric and a Century of American Power (Marx, Engels, and Marxisms)
by Stephen MaherThis book advances an original conception of the relationship between state and corporate power in the United States. Using what he terms an Institutional Marxist framework, Maher argues that, far from passively responding to interest group pressures, the state has been a key agent in politically mobilizing business, and has played an active role in the organization of lobbying groups. Such business associations do not merely express the pre-existing interests of their corporate members, but are also mechanisms through which the state organizes the political power of the capitalist class. They form part of what the author refers to as an integral state—a wider network of state power which traverses and interpenetrates the state bureaucracy, the legislature, the industrial policy apparatus, and corporate governance. Based on extensive archival research, this book tracks the role of the General Electric Company as a pillar of the integral state in the United States from the finance capital period (1880 to 1930), through the managerial period (1930-1979), to the restructuring leading up to the age of neoliberalism (1979-present).
Corporate Capitalism and Political Philosophy
by Suman GuptaCorporate capitalism is usually examined from a sociological or economic viewpoint, and this book breaks new ground in providing a thorough account of the mechanisms which define it from a philosophical perspective, revealing how these processes determine the way we live today.*BR**BR*Marxist and other left-oriented political philosophies had ideological roots that were based, sometimes incongruously, on particular economic and sociological readings of the capitalist process. Political philosophies associated with conservatism and neoliberalism have either been assimilated within capitalist discourses, or they have been designed to justify corporate capitalist processes. *BR**BR*This book re-examines these issues with an unusually dispassionate approach, providing a systematic view of contemporary corporate capitalism in all its complexity, without expecting the reader to have a specialist knowledge of sociology or economics. It clarifies the scope of political philosophy by reflecting on its own methodology and practice, and offers a controversial conclusion that within contemporary corporate capitalist modes of organisation there is actually no space left for political philosophy at all, as corporate capitalism systematically denies all political agents an ability to exercise their political will.
Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland: A new architecture of regulatory enforcement (PDF) (Irish Society)
by Joe McgrathThis book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland. It is demonstrated that the State has transitioned from one contradictory model of corporate enforcement to another. Traditionally, the State invoked its most powerful weapon of state censure, the criminal law, but was remarkably lenient in practice because the law was not enforced. The contemporary model is much more reliant on cooperative measures and civil orders, but also contains remarkably punitive and instrumental measures to surmount the difficulties of proving guilt in criminal cases. Though corporate and financial regulation has become an area of significant interest for academics, researchers and those with an interest in corporate affairs, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of scholarship or any deep empirical and contextual analysis in Ireland. This book provides that foundation. It is likely to stimulate an extensive conversation on corporate regulation and governance in Ireland. It is also likely to provide a platform for researchers further afield with an interest in comparative study with Ireland.
Corporate and white-collar crime in Ireland: A new architecture of regulatory enforcement (Irish Society)
by Joe McgrathThis book explores the emergence of a new architecture of corporate enforcement in Ireland. It is demonstrated that the State has transitioned from one contradictory model of corporate enforcement to another. Traditionally, the State invoked its most powerful weapon of state censure, the criminal law, but was remarkably lenient in practice because the law was not enforced. The contemporary model is much more reliant on cooperative measures and civil orders, but also contains remarkably punitive and instrumental measures to surmount the difficulties of proving guilt in criminal cases. Though corporate and financial regulation has become an area of significant interest for academics, researchers and those with an interest in corporate affairs, this sudden surge of interest lacks a tradition of scholarship or any deep empirical and contextual analysis in Ireland. This book provides that foundation. It is likely to stimulate an extensive conversation on corporate regulation and governance in Ireland. It is also likely to provide a platform for researchers further afield with an interest in comparative study with Ireland.
Corporate Accountability under Socio-Economic Rights (Transnational Law and Governance)
by Jernej Letnar ČerničIn recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rights to livelihoods, education, food, health, housing and water are affected by the actions of corporations on a daily basis. Despite this, it is often difficult for victims to bring corporations to court for violations of their socio-economic rights. Domestic constitutional systems provide, at best, fragile and limited protections against adverse corporate activities, while international responses have been lacking in creating obligations and accountability for corporations under socio-economic rights. The urgency of bolstering corporate accountability for socio-economic rights is therefore apparent. In light of this, this book asks whether corporations are required to observe socio-economic rights and if they are accountable for any violations. In doing so, it identifies and analyzes the theoretical foundations and the existing scope of corporate accountability arising from socio-economic rights at both national and international levels. Through careful analysis, Jernej Letnar Černič exposes the stark need for greater clarity in the obligations and accountability of corporations, advocating a normative framework for corporate accountability for socio-economic rights in national legal orders which builds on existing mechanisms.
Corporate Accountability under Socio-Economic Rights (Transnational Law and Governance)
by Jernej Letnar ČerničIn recent decades, corporations have increasingly accepted that they have obligations to respect the socio-economic rights of individuals whose rights to livelihoods, education, food, health, housing and water are affected by the actions of corporations on a daily basis. Despite this, it is often difficult for victims to bring corporations to court for violations of their socio-economic rights. Domestic constitutional systems provide, at best, fragile and limited protections against adverse corporate activities, while international responses have been lacking in creating obligations and accountability for corporations under socio-economic rights. The urgency of bolstering corporate accountability for socio-economic rights is therefore apparent. In light of this, this book asks whether corporations are required to observe socio-economic rights and if they are accountable for any violations. In doing so, it identifies and analyzes the theoretical foundations and the existing scope of corporate accountability arising from socio-economic rights at both national and international levels. Through careful analysis, Jernej Letnar Černič exposes the stark need for greater clarity in the obligations and accountability of corporations, advocating a normative framework for corporate accountability for socio-economic rights in national legal orders which builds on existing mechanisms.
Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools: Legal Precedents, Current Practices, and Future Policy (SpringerBriefs in Psychology)
by Elizabeth T. Gershoff Kelly M. Purtell Igor HolasThis Brief reviews the past, present, and future use of school corporal punishment in the United States, a practice that remains legal in 19 states as it is constitutionally permitted according to the U.S. Supreme Court. As a result of school corporal punishment, nearly 200,000 children are paddled in schools each year. Most Americans are unaware of this fact or the physical injuries sustained by countless school children who are hit with objects by school personnel in the name of discipline. Therefore, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools begins by summarizing the legal basis for school corporal punishment and trends in Americans’ attitudes about it. It then presents trends in the use of school corporal punishment in the United States over time to establish its past and current prevalence. It then discusses what is known about the effects of school corporal punishment on children, though with so little research on this topic, much of the relevant literature is focused on parents’ use of corporal punishment with their children. It also provides results from a policy analysis that examines the effect of state-level school corporal punishment bans on trends in juvenile crime. It concludes by discussing potential legal, policy, and advocacy avenues for abolition of school corporal punishment at the state and federal levels as well as summarizing how school corporal punishment is being used and what its potential implications are for thousands of individual students and for the society at large. As school corporal punishment becomes more and more regulated at the state level, Corporal Punishment in U.S. Public Schools serves an essential guide for policymakers and advocates across the country as well as for researchers, scientist-practitioners, and graduate students.
Corporal Punishment in Preschool and at Home in Tanzania: A Children’s Rights Challenge (SpringerBriefs in Education)
by Reuben Sungwa Liz Jackson Joyce KahembeThis book examines educators and parents’ practices of corporal punishment of preschool-aged children in school and at home in Tanzania, considering why it is that many children in Tanzania are still subject to corporal punishment. It explores the attitudes of parents, teachers, and educational leaders about corporal punishment, in the context of existing government policies, laws, and regulations, using interviews, questionnaires and observation. Corporal punishment is widely and frequently used by both parents and teachers as a way of maintaining discipline, with most regarding it favourably as a means of behavioural modification. Furthermore, the book shows that the use of corporal punishment in Tanzania is influenced by cultural norms and religious beliefs, teacher qualifications and parents’ levels of education, past experiences of corporal punishment, and related beliefs about the practice. Crucially, there has not yet been a societal-level legal framework established to protect children from the harms involved.
Coronavirus Politics: The Comparative Politics and Policy of COVID-19
by Scott L Greer Elizabeth King Elize Massard da Fonseca Andre Peralta-SantosCOVID-19 is the most significant global crisis of any of our lifetimes. The numbers have been stupefying, whether of infection and mortality, the scale of public health measures, or the economic consequences of shutdown. Coronavirus Politics identifies key threads in the global comparative discussion that continue to shed light on COVID-19 and shape debates about what it means for scholarship in health and comparative politics. Editors Scott L. Greer, Elizabeth J. King, Elize Massard da Fonseca, and André Peralta-Santos bring together over 30 authors versed in politics and the health issues in order to understand the health policy decisions, the public health interventions, the social policy decisions, their interactions, and the reasons. The book’s coverage is global, with a wide range of key and exemplary countries, and contains a mixture of comparative, thematic, and templated country studies. All go beyond reporting and monitoring to develop explanations that draw on the authors' expertise while engaging in structured conversations across the book.