American Business and Public Policy: The Politics of Foreign Trade

Table of contents

• Title Page ii
• The Atherton Press Political Science Series v
• Foreword vii
• Preface xi
• Contents xv
• List of Figures xxi
• List of Tables xxv
• Introduction - The Study and Its Methods 1
• Part I - The Setting 10
• Chapter 2 - The New Republicanism And Renewal 1953 23
• Chapter 3 - The Randall Report 40
• Chapter 4 - Renewal 1954 50
• Chapter 5 - Renewal 1955 and Since 59
• Chapter 6 - Public Attitudes on Foreign Trade 80
• Part II - Businessmen's Attitudes And Communication On Foreign-Trade Policy 105
• Chapter 7 - Introduction to Part II 107
• Chapter 8 - Attitudes Of American Business Leaders 1954-1955 112
• Chapter 9 - The Roots of Conviction-- Self-Interest and Ideology 127
• Chapter 10 - Channels of Information 154
• Chapter 11 - Communications About Foreign-Trade Policy 179
• Chapter 12 - Communicating with Congress 196
• Chapter 13 - Businessmen's Attitudes And Communication-- A Summary 224
• Appendix to Part II - Large and Small Firms-- The Varying Impact of Self-Interest 230
• Part III - Eight Communities 243
• Chapter 14 - Introduction 245
• Chapter 15 ---------- - Detroit: Hotbed of Free Traders 251
• Chapter 16 - Delaware: Where the Elephant Takes Care Not to Dance Among the Chickens 265
• Chapter 17 - Wall Street: The Sleeping Giant 277
• Chapter 18 - New Anglia 288
• Chapter 19 - Four Inactive Communities. 296
• Chapter 20 - Lessons of The Community Studies 313
• Part IV - The Pressure Groups 321
• Chapter 21 ---------- - Dramatis Personae 323
• Chapter 22 - Quasiunanimity-- Premise of Action 332
• Chapter 23 - Further Difficulties Of the Pressure Groups 341
• Chapter 24 - Pressure Group Or Service Bureau? 350
• Chapter 26 ---------- - The Cntp-- Spokesman for Reciprocal Trade 375
• Chapter 27 - The Ladies of the League 388
• Chapter 28 - The Pressure Groups-- A Summary 396
• Part V - The Congressional Process 401
• Chapter 29 - The Job of The Congressman 403
• Chapter 30 - Some Areas of Initiative 414
• Chapter 31 - Congress as A Social System 425
• Chapter 32 - Communications-- Pressure, Influence, or Education? 433
• Chapter 33 - Conflict of Roles 444
• Chapter 34 - The Congressional Process-- A Summary 451
• Appendix to Part V - The Study And The Literature on Congress 459
• Part IV - Conclusions 463
• Chapter 35 - Conclusions 465
• Index 491

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