Introduction: American Business, American Politics 1. - Chapter 1: From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence 14. - Chapter 2: A New Life for Old Lobbies 46. - Chapter 3: The Birth of the Business Roundtable 76. - Chapter 4: Business, Labor, and the Politics of Inflation 106. - Chapter 5: The...

With the Treaty of Lisbon, which entered into force on 1 December 2009, the EU de facto became a state territory stretching from Portugal to Finland and from Ireland to Cyprus. The previous co-decision procedure was elevated to become the standard procedure ("ordinary legislative procedure")....