Lobbying in company: economic interests and political decision making in the history of Dutch Brazil, 1621-1656

Abstract

"This book focuses on the history of the WIC in Brazil in order to study the role of lobbying for political decision making in the seventeenth- century Dutch Republic, and argues that lobbying was the primary tool for people to implement, shape, and maintain institutions. Considering this impact, it is astonishing that lobbying has been underappreciated and regularly neglected by historians of all sub- disciplines"--