Introduction -- Organized business and progressive social policy in comparative perspective / José Carlos Marques -- Business power, social policy preferences and development / Kevin Farnsworth -- Liberalization, business-state relations and labour policy in India / Kanta Murali -- Business participation in free trade negotiations in Chile: impacts on environmental and labour regulation / Benedicte Bull -- Business, politics and free trade negotiations in Nicaragua: who were the winners and losers? / Gloria Carrión -- Corporate lobbying and corporate social responsibility: aligning contradictory agendas / Bart Slob and Francis Weyzig -- Corporative rents and the capture of the Peruvian state / Francisco Durand -- The ascent of business associations in Russia: from capture to partnership? / David W. O'Brien -- Lobbying to reduce the 'Brazil Cost': the political strategies of Brazilian entrepreneurs / Wagner Pralon Mancuso -- Government-industry partnership in South Africa: social bias in the automotive industry / Martin Kaggwa -- New standards and partnerships in Latin America: implications for small producers and state policy / Paola Perez-Aleman.

xviii, 327 p. : graphs, tables ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9780230576452