Date of Award
5-2010
Document type
dissertation
Access Type
Open Access Dissertation
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Degree Program
Political Science
First Advisor
Dean Robinson
Second Advisor
Sheldon Goldman
Third Advisor
Gerald Epstein
Subject Categories
Political Science
Abstract
My research provides an insider's view of how political consensus is formed within the business community. More specifically, my research sheds light on the sociological processes of political mobilization within the business community against the Clinton Health Security Act of 1994. In this study, I build off Jill Quadagno's stakeholder thesis which largely attributes the defeat of the healthcare reform effort to the political mobilization of anti-healthcare business forces. I probe Quadagno's thesis a bit deeper in this study by exploring how conflicting business forces resolved policy disagreements on the merits of healthcare reform in order to arrive at the position of unity necessary for its political mobilization against the effort.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.7275/1562280
Recommended Citation
Lenz, Michael, "The Business Community and the Forging of Political Consensus Against the Clinton Healthcare Security Act of 1994" (2010). Open Access Dissertations. 213.
https://doi.org/10.7275/1562280
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/open_access_dissertations/213