Exam 2: Corporate Power in 21st Century Canada

What is hegemony? Explain how this relates to the way that business interests are manifest in Canadian politics and how this manifestation has changed historically.

How do we conceptualize corporate power in sociological terms? How do corporate boards show traces of these kinds of power?

Why is corporate power referred to as "Janus-faced"? What are its two faces, and why is this significant? How does this relate to the three forms of power?

What did the investor-rights provisions in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) allow investors to do?

Workers, communities, and states depend on large corporations that may or may not choose to invest in a given place at a given time.

Borrowing the narrative of the economic development of the global south, Levitt (1970) described Canada as "the world's poorest developed country."

Groups of interlocked capitalists who own or manage supra-corporate blocs of indigenous finance capital are at the centre of Canadian corporate power.

The concentration of corporate capital in Canada in the late twentieth century largely coincides with what event?

There is no relationship over the past six decades between the concentration of corporate capital and the extent of income inequality in Canada.

The cross-appointment of directors interlocks boards of major corporations with one another.

What structure is said to be constituted when allocative, strategic, and operational forms of economic power are taken together in directorate interlocks and inter-corporate ownership?

A version of which narrative was applied to Canada in the late 1960s and 1970s?

The notion of hegemony means that the consent of subordinates is not required to rule.

How is economic power concentrated in Canada? What trend has this concentration undergone? How is it related to other forms of centralization?

Which of the following trends exemplifies moral reform within the corporate elite?

What term describes cultural and political leadership that shapes the common-sense understandings of what is socially possible, and what is deemed to be in the "common interest"?

What is transnational investment?

Which of the following phenomena resulted from the shifting basis of elite solidarity in recent decades?