In the US, as the midterm elections approach, the tech companies are spending billions of dollars to protect their interests, exercising undue influence on legislators.
These issues will mostly be decided at the national level in political battles – just as they always have – with economic interests exercising a far more important impact than evidence in decision making – again, just as they always have.
Roosevelt's listeners knew well the profound leverage business interests exercised over politicians.
This article responds to this normative concern by examining the implications for the democratic legitimacy of multi-stakeholder governance arrangements in cases where private resource extraction companies, who do not necessarily act in the public interest, exercise a 'metagovernance' role.
Congress responded by passing the 1988 Exon-Florio Amendment, which grants the president the ability to block or unwind a foreign acquisition if there is "credible evidence" that a "foreign interest exercising control might take action that threatens to impair the national security".
But he has not shown the enthusiasm of his predecessor, Lawton Chiles, who courageously blocked efforts by the agricultural interests to exercise line-by-line veto power over the project through their friends in the state legislature.
Our interests, passions, exercise habits, political leanings, educations, and core values and beliefs matched closely.
Although Kafka showed little interest in exercise as a child, he later showed interest in games and physical activity, as a good rider, swimmer, and rower.
It is in line with our interest in exercise and public health.
