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Business-Managed Democracy

“Business-managed democracies are those in which the political and cultural arrangements are managed in the interests of business”

Sharon Beder

Business-Managed Government

Corporate Interconnections

Membership of Key US Policy Groups: Selected Corporations, 2005


NAM
Chambers of
Commerce
CFR CED Business
Council
Conference
Board
BRT
3M              
AIG              
AmEx              
AT&T              
Boeing              
Caterpillar              
Citigroup              
Dow Chem              
DuPont              
E. Kodak              
Eli Lilly              
Exxon Mobil              
Ford Motor              
GE              
GM              
JP Morgan              
Pfizer              
Procter & G              
Texas Inst.              
Time Warner              

LEGEND
   Membership  NAM = National Association of Manufacturers
   Board of Directors  CFR = Council on Foreign Relations
   Trustees  CED = Committee for Economic Development
   Executive, Officers  BRT = Business Roundtable

Source: Sharon Beder, Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda, Earthscan, London, 2006 (adapted from William Domhoff, Who Rules America?, 4th ed., McGraw  Hill, 2002, p. 72).
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