corporate influence
Company political power
Corporate influence is the power that businesses and their interests exert over government policy, public opinion, or other institutions.
The term usually carries critical connotations—suggesting that profit motives shape decisions that should serve the public good: Corporate influence has weakened environmental regulations.
It encompasses lobbying, campaign contributions, revolving-door hiring between industry and government, and media ownership.
The phrase implies an imbalance: corporations wielding outsized power relative to ordinary citizens.
- campaign financingFunding electoral efforts
- market dominanceControl over a sector
- monopoliesExclusive market control
- too big to failRequiring rescue due to scale
- shareholder valueEquity investor financial returns
lobbying · bought and paid for · media ownership · advertising · greenwashing · think tanks · revolving door · tax loopholes · venture capital · astroturfing · boardroom politics · philanthropy · political donations · trade associations · branding · government contracts · supply chains · outsourcing
- corporationsApple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Toyota
- lobbyinglobbying, lobby, lobbyist, lobbyists, lobbying firms
- media ethicsjournalism ethics, media ethics, media bias, journalistic ethics, journalistic integrity
- press ethicsjournalistic ethics, journalistic integrity, ethical journalism, editorial standards, ethical standards
- access costsadmission, cover charge, entry fee, fee, gate money
corporate influencegrassroots activism
Citizen-led political engagement
community organizing · participatory democracy · direct democracy · grassroots movement · grassroots organizing
corporate influencecooperative enterprise
Collectively owned and operated organization
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