논문검색
2020년대
미국 재계의 정치활동: 1984년 대선에서의 유권자 동원을 중심으로
제목(영문)
Business Political Activity: Voter Mobilization in the 1984 Elections
저자
기여운
출처
키워드
business political activity, business power, employee political mobilization, voter mobilization, U.S. in the 1980s
작성자
admamstin
작성일
2026-01-12
조회
15
How do businesses exert political influence? Existing research on American politics has largely emphasized the use of financial resources, particularly lobbying and campaign contributions. This paper demonstrates that during the 1984 U.S. elections, the business community mobilized human as well as material resources. Drawing on archival records of the 1984 Republican campaign and primary documents detailing business political activities, this analysis shows that major business associations and corporate leaders engaged in extensive voter mobilization efforts to secure Republican electoral victories. They encouraged fellow business leaders to support the campaign and organized voter registration and turnout drives targeting their own employees. By highlighting business-led community mobilization, this study expands our understanding of the way businesses exert political influence. Furthermore, while existing scholarship has conceptualized business political power primarily in instrumental terms, this paper incorporates employee mobilization to illuminate how corporate influence operates through the interplay of instrumental and structural dimensions.
