Political Ideas of Selected American Business Journals

Theodore Roosevelt and the Bureau of Corporation: Executive-Corporate Cooperation and the Advancement of the Regulatory State

“…176 Charles M. Schwab spoke of the need to secure new export markets and maximize investments into the country by stabilizing business's relations with government and therefore ensuring the legal validity of their practices. 177 Addressing the Commercial Club of Cincinnati in 1911, Perkins argued that in the ''get together age'' of globalization, monopolistic suppression of competition inhibited economic growth and caused counterproductive strife within labor. Casting away the practices of old, he stated, ''Some other method must be found, and it would seem to lie in the medium of cooperation.''…”

Business and State Economic Development

“…Those political scientists who have examined business power are sharply divided between those who see business as simply another interest group among many in a pluralist political system (Vogel 1986; Along with this theoretical disagreement about overall business power in American society is a division regarding the orientation business people take toward the state and public policy. Most political science studies have found corporate managers and owners to be militantly anti-government (Bernstein 1953;Prothro 1954;Sutton et al 1956;Christ 1970;Lo 1982). Bernstein described the major tenet of business thought as a generalized opposition to government intervention combined with support for specific programs that would aid particular businesses, namely their own.…”

Indirect Methods of Assessing Personality1

“…Other materials which have been examined for attitudes include speeches (Eckhardt & l{hite, 1967;Prothro, 1956;vfuite, 1949), articles (Angell, Dunham, & Singer, 1964;Bernstein, 1953;Lane, 1951;Wilcox, 1962), letters (Baldwin, 1942;Cochran, 1953), and diaries (Osgood, 1959). Stuart (1963) has even employed grievance records to study racial attitudes.…”