1. A Corporate Economy:

• An historical perspective.
• Classical capitalism vs. a corporate economy.
• The nature of the modern corporation.
• The needs of the corporation.
• Relations with government and the political system.
• The quest for hegemony.

2. Campaign Funding:

• Corporate campaign finance.
• Federal Corrupt Practices Act (1925).
  
• Federal Election Campaign Act (1974).
• Buckley v. Valeo (1976).
  
• Loopholes.
• Political action committee (PAC).
• Soft money, independent expenditures, and issue ads.
• McCain-Feingold Act (2002).
• Public Financing.
  
• Access.

3. Lobbying:

• The nature of lobbying.
• The three functions of lobbying.
• Lobbying the legislature and the bureaucracy.
• Direct Lobbying.
• Grass-roots lobbying.
• Lobbying Legislation.
• Lobbying Registration Act (1946).
• U.S v. Harris (1954).
• Lobbyist Disclosure Act (1995).
  
• The Washington connection: the seven avenues of political influence.
• The Washington or iron triangles: the subgovernment phenomenon.

4. Regulatory Agencies:

• Captured regulatory agencies.
• Examples.
  

5. The Corporation and Public Policy:

• Definition of public policy.
• The blurred boundary between what is public and what is private.
• The components of public policy.
• Situational bindingness.

6. Resource Transfer Policy:

• Economic concentration:
• Horizontal monopolies.
• Vertical monopolies.
• Oligopolies.
• Conglomerates.
• Multinational corporations (MNCs).
• Global companies.
  
• Cross-subsidization.
• Consumer sovereignty.
• Administered prices.
• Beneficiaries of resources transfer.

7. Corporate Regulatory Policies:

• Externalities.
• Job safety.

8. Remedies and Reform:

• Ten reforms.
• An eleventh reform.

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