caa a22 4500 397524420 CHVBK 20180308164641.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161202e19950801xx s 000 0 eng 10.2307/3096855 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)oxford-10.2307/3096855 Mintz Beth University of Vermont Business Participation in Health Care Policy Reform: Factors Contributing to Collective Action Within the Business Community [Elektronische Daten] [Beth Mintz] This paper examines business political activity by exploring those corporate characteristics that contribute to intercorporate coalition formation. Using differences of interest in relation to health care profitability to illustrate the difficulties inherent in corporate collective action, this study examines the role of corporate selfinterest in political behavior. Distinguishing between narrow individual interest, a broader self-interest that may overlap with the individual interests of other corporations, and classwide interest, this study addresses the extent to which corporate political activity reflects the narrow self-interest of individual firms. It begins by examining membership patterns in big business' major lobbying group on health — The Washington Business Group on Health continues by tracing the development of the WBGH — as it matured from a spinoff of the Business Roundtable to a mature lobbying group in its own right. Finally, it investigates individual corporate reaction to a proposed change in accounting requirements for health care costs, thus, comparing individual behaviors with collective action. © 1995 Society for the Study of Social Problems, Inc. Five Other Papers nationallicence Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 408-428 0037-7791 42:3<408 1995 42 socpro https://doi.org/10.2307/3096855 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2307/3096855 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Mintz Beth University of Vermont NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Social Problems Oxford University Press 42/3(1995-08-01), 408-428 0037-7791 42:3<408 1995 42 socpro Metadata rights reserved CC BY-NC-4.0 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-oxford