"This book is a significant contribution to . . . broad political thought, one that should stimulate a great deal more."—New Political Science"His most innovative contribution is to fuse sociological theories of civil society with corporate law."—Social Control and LawThe corporate mega-mergers of the 1980s and 1990s raise many troubling questions for social scientists and legal scholars. Do corporate globalism and the new, streamlined corporation help or hinder the development of civil society? Does the new power that increasingly deregulated businesses wield undermine the rights of citizens, or is this threat being exaggerated?....