Citizens and Corporations
Corporate Influence

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Citizens and Corporations - Corporate Influence

Corporations are increasingly exerting undue influence over government, especially the British government. There are several factors at work:

  • party donations
  • other inducements to ministers and civil servants
  • lack of politicians' confidence in civil servants
  • gullibility of politicians
  • an irrational deification of the private sector

At times such influence extends to corporate drafting of legislation.

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Page Last Updated 19 August 2007.