Cards (6)

  • Large corporations such as Google, Starbucks, Virgin, Facebook and Amazon are so big and influential that they qualify as a kind of sectional pressure group on their own
  • What do large corporations resist?
    Proposed legislation that might hinder their operations
  • Large corporations seek to emphasise the positive role they play in the national economy
  • Corporations have a strategically important place in the economy
  • What do large corporations have if they have a strategically important place in the economy?
    Greater insider influence
  • What is one example of the success of corporations in lobbying the government?
    Successful resistance to calls for companies to pay more in UK taxes on their profits