A rise in the prominence of business?: The political role of corporations in Denmark over two decades

Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz; Magnus Bülow; Peter Munk Christiansen; Emma Helbo

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A rise in the prominence of business? The political role of corporations in Denmark over two decades

Anne Skorkjær Binderkrantz, Magnus Bülow, Peter Munk Christiansen^*, Emma Helbo

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Recent research has documented a significant and rising presence of corporations in politics. In this letter, we ask to what extent corporations in Denmark have increased their political activity and access to political arenas during the last two decades. The analysis draws on two surveys among large corporations conducted in 2001 and 2022. This allows us to compare the extent to which corporations use tactics such as targeting the news media as well as their reported levels of contact to public authorities. We find that corporations today are engaged in broader questions and use a wider set of strategies than around the turn of the century, but also that their contacts to public administrative authorities have decreased and that a larger share of corporations are only active through collective organisations. This provides an important corrective to the existing image of a uniform rise in the political activities of private corporations.

Original language	English
Journal	Scandinavian Political Studies
Volume	47
Issue	4
Pages (from-to)	539-551
Number of pages	13
ISSN	0080-6757
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9477.12279
Publication status	Published - Dec 2024

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A rise in the prominence of business? The political role of corporations in Denmark over two decades. / Binderkrantz, Anne Skorkjær; Bülow, Magnus; Christiansen, Peter Munk et al.
In: Scandinavian Political Studies, Vol. 47, No. 4, 12.2024, p. 539-551.

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