The determinants of corporate political activity in Australia.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Bell, Stephen; Hindmoor, Andrew; Umashev, Nicholas
- Source
- Australian Journal of Political Science. Dec2023, Vol. 58 Issue 4, p363-382. 20p.
- Subject
- *CORPORATE political activity
*POLITICAL participation
*INTERVENTION (Federal government)
*PUBLIC relations
*POWER (Social sciences)
- Language
- ISSN
- 1036-1146
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. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]