Not by structure alone: power, prominence, and agency in American finance
Not by structure alone: power, prominence, and agency in American finance
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不仅仅是结构：美国金融界的权力、显赫地位和代理机构
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2015
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Young Kevin
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当行业或个体企业的差异力量受到质疑时，我研究了结构力量的概念化和衡量的挑战。虽然确定结构权力在这个层面上的运作可能非常具有挑战性，但我指出了一些概念化和测量问题，这些问题可以增强我们在研究过程的初始阶段的分析杠杆作用。具体来说，我提出了一种更精致的“结构突出性”语言，以区分结构性权力的预期原因与其假设的影响。我使用各种数据表明，研究人员可以使用一些简单的工具，但在检查结构权力论证时必须仔细注意基本逻辑推理的局限性。通过研究企业对美国证券监管政策提案的反应，我发现了结构性权力在最初政策提案中发挥作用的积极证据。当我考察政策制定过程本身的偏好获得水平时，结构性权力似乎发挥着较弱且更有条件的作用。我还发现，当结构性力量和工具性力量共同作用时，企业获得的偏好最大，这一发现支持了该领域的最新研究。
I examine the challenges of conceptualization and measurement of structural power when the differential power of industries or individual firms are in question. While ascertaining structural power’s operation at this level can be very challenging, I point to some issues of conceptualization and measurement that can enhance our analytic leverage at the initial stages of the research process. Specifically I propose a more refined language of “structural prominence” to differentiate between the expected causes of structural power from its hypothesized effects. Using a variety of data I show that researchers have some simple tools at their disposal but must pay careful attention to basic logical inferential limitations when examining structural power arguments. Through an examination of firms’ reactions to policy proposals in US securities regulation I find positive evidence for structural power operating in initial policy proposals. When I examine levels of preference attainment in the policymaking process itself, structural power appears to be playing a weaker and more conditional role. I also find that the preference attainment of firms is greatest when structural and instrumental forces operate in conjunction, a finding supportive of recent research in this area.