Hiding in the crowd : corporate climate lobbying under investor and consumer pressure
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Across the globe, investors and consumers have become concerned about climate change. With this concern comes a heightened interest in the climate lobbying of large firms. In this dissertation, I examine how companies adjust their lobbying practices to these new pressures. I argue that one important way in which companies react to potential consumer and investor scrutiny is to adjust the observability of their lobbying. Less climate-friendly firms shift away from lobbying by themselves into industry associations. Lobbying through associations complicates the attribution of positions and distributes the potential blame for lobbying activity across all firms in the sector. Companies with greener climate preferences than their competitors will react to consumer and investor pressure by taking more lobbying positions individually. This logic implies that investor and consumer pressure on climate lobbying could lead companies to shift their lobbying strategies rather than their positions. I test this argument by investigating the example of climate lobbying in the European Union. The first set of empirical chapters provides observational and survey experimental evidence of consumer and investor reactions to information on lobbying. The second set of empirical chapters presents quantitative and qualitative evidence of firms' strategic choice to lobby individually or collectively.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2023; ©2023 |
| Publication date | 2023; 2023 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Toenshoff, Christina Luise |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Degree supervisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Thesis advisor | Goldstein, Judith |
| Thesis advisor | Scheve, Kenneth F |
| Thesis advisor | Kennard, Amanda (Amanda Helen) |
| Thesis advisor | Tomz, Michael |
| Degree committee member | Kennard, Amanda (Amanda Helen) |
| Degree committee member | Tomz, Michael |
| Associated with | Stanford University, School of Humanities and Sciences |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Political Science |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Christina Luise Toenshoff. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Political Science. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2023. |
| Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/jr813mq6600 |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2023 by Christina Luise Toenshoff
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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