Corporations, Rights, and Lobbying
While there may be several practical concerns regarding the practice of corporate lobbying of government officials, there is the more basic question of a corporations moral right to do so. I argue that group agents such as corporations have no moral rights, and thereby cannot have the right to lobb...
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| Type de support: | Électronique Article |
| Langue: | Anglais |
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Springer Science + Business Media B. V
[2016]
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Ethical theory and moral practice
Année: 2016, Volume: 19, Numéro: 2, Pages: 397-408 |
| RelBib Classification: | NCD Éthique et politique XA Droit |
| Sujets non-standardisés: | B
Moral patiency
B Corporations B Legal rights B Lobbying B Corporate rights B Moral rights |
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| Résumé: | While there may be several practical concerns regarding the practice of corporate lobbying of government officials, there is the more basic question of a corporations moral right to do so. I argue that group agents such as corporations have no moral rights, and thereby cannot have the right to lobby. There may be a basis for some legal rights for corporations, but I argue that lobbying cannot be one of the legal rights, even by reference to the rights of the individuals that make up the corporation. I end the paper by a discussion of how this argument applies to all private organizations, including public interest organizations. |
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| ISSN: | 1572-8447 |
| Contient: | Enthalten in: Ethical theory and moral practice
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1007/s10677-015-9631-3 |