• How Corporate Political Responsibility is used in claims and debates about corporate responsibility.
• What distinguishes political responsibilities from other corporate social responsibilities?
• The arguments for and against corporations undertaking political responsibilities?
• The issues that arise for business and politics when corporations do undertake political responsibilities, e.g.,: i) in democracies and non-democracies ii) at home and abroad iii) in selected issue areas (e.g. taxation, provision of critical infrastructure, human rights iv) in selected policy processes (e.g. elections, lobbying, administration.
• The public and private institutions that enable Corporate Political Responsibility to be organized, and to what effect?

The Course will address questions as to what responsibilities Corporate Political Responsibility brings, why, how and with what implications and consequences? 

The Course will critically review different conceptions of Corporate Political Responsibility in the theoretical literatures, particularly to consider the ways in which these relate to / differ from broader corporate social responsibility theory, and to consider the normative aspects of corporate claims to be taking political responsibility. One particular conception of Corporate Political Responsibility (e.g. Corporate Citizenship) will be examined in-depth. The Course will examine particular issue areas in which questions of Corporate Political Responsibility do, or potentially, apply: e.g. lobbying, taxation, governance responsibility in global value chains. It will examine public and private institutions in which Corporate Political Responsibility takes place.

To be provided in advance of the course.