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The business community and the forging of political consensus against the Clinton Health Security Act of 1994
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.
Subject Area
Business administration|Public health|Political science|Public policy
Recommended Citation
Lenz, Michael W, "The business community and the forging of political consensus against the Clinton Health Security Act of 1994" (2010). Doctoral Dissertations Available from Proquest. AAI3409620.
https://scholarworks.umass.edu/dissertations/AAI3409620