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Can I read Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business (Law and Society: Recent Scholarship) on EtoBox?

Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business (Law and Society: Recent Scholarship) by Robert L Kerr; ebrary, Inc.; EBSCOhost is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business (Law and Society: Recent Scholarship) about?

Annotation Kerr analyzes how in the 1970s Mobil Oil made the The New York Times op-ed page the focus of its advocacy strategy to promote interests far beyond its immediate business objectives. Although other corporations produced advocacy messages, none spoke so regularly on so many issues of public policy as Mobil. Kerr shows how Mobil framed the corporate role in democratic processes as identical to that of the individual citizen. This was a radical assertion at the beginning of the seventies, but by the end of the decade Mobil's efforts were the ideological vanguard of an historic expansion of the rights and practices of corporate speech

Who reads Rights of Corporate Speech: Mobil Oil and the Legal Development of the Voice of Big Business (Law and Society: Recent Scholarship)?

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Robert L Kerr; ebrary, Inc.; EBSCOhost
Publisher
LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC; LFB Scholarly Pub.
Published
2005
Language
EN
ISBN
9781593321581
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Law

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