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Alternate title : Political treachery.
Political vipers!
Isn’t that what all elected officials are?
that is why most taxes are theft
I should also, add corporate managers to the list of “political vipers”; including mid-level as well!
“enablers”
I was thinking within the parameters of a firm more so than the interaction of the organization with political institutions.
The work in Constitutional political economics shows that non-government institutions do have many of the same features of and engaging in
“Political decision-making”. The folks at George Mason have applied these concepts to biker gangs and pirates, but when will someone study a corporate office environments? There is meta-level constitutional rule-making, political exchange, coalitions, “codified” internal procedures, rent-seeking, concentrated interests, policy entrepreneurship, top-down governance structure, .. and all of the above is driven by a number of competing inter-personal incentive structures amalgamating into a single functioning business. Needless to say various forms log rolling and other varieties of negotiations take place at the micro and macro level of the organization.
Your point about office politics is well-taken; also, let’s add “Cosa Nostra Courts” to the mix: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3977333
I second that.