Law and the balance of power
Subtitle: the automobile manufacturers and their dealers
By: Stewart Macaulay
Published: 1966
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781610443739; 9780871545749
Subjects: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industrial Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management Science; Law and legislation; Automobile industry and trade; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Management; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Table of contents: title: Foreword by Willard Hurst ; Preface by Leonard S. Cottrell, Jr. ; Author's Preface ; Chapter 1. Introduction ; Chapter 2. The Nature of the Dealers' Problems: The Setting for Legal Warfare ; A. General Considerations: The Relationship and the Balance of Power ; 1. The Nature of the Relationship: Problem Avoidance and Creation ; 2. Private Solutions of Problems: The Balance of Power ; B. Some Relatively Recent History: Problems and Solutions the Dealers Found Unsatisfactory; title: Chapter 3. Attempted Solutions: Individual Lawsuits, Collective Bargaining, and an Appeal to the Legal System for Changes in the Rules A. The First Stage: Individual Legal Action and Individual Defeat ; B. The Second Stage: Organization and Collective Private Action ; C. The Third Stage: Lobbying and Battles Before Legal Agencies ; 1. The Use of Laws of General Application ; 2. Battles Before the State Legislatures ; 3. The Use of the Power of the United States Congress ; D. The Fourth Stage: Truce, Response, and Change by Manufacturers and Dealers ; 1. Communications are Reestablished; title: 2. Internal Changes in the Organizational Structure of Manufacturers E. The Fifth Stage: Application of the Statutes Through Legal and Private Systems ; 1. The Federal Good Faith Act ; 2. The State Statutes ; Chapter 4. The Consequences of the Dealers' Appeal to the Legal System ; A. The Dealers' Costs and Gains ; B. The Manufacturers' Costs and Gains ; C. The Consumers' Costs and Gains ; Chapter 5. Some Conclusions and Observations ; A. The Standards for Decision Making: Efficiency, Due Process, and Performance ; 1. Explanation and Conjecture; title: 2. New Specialized Areas and Generalized Contract Law B. Interest Groups and the Public Interest ; 1. The Legal System and Groups Seeking Change; 2. What of the Public Interest?; C. Law and Private Systems: Formality and Informality ; 1. The Relationship Between the Legal and the Private Systems ; 2. Advantages and Disadvantages of Informality and Private Systems ; 3. Significance for Legal Research ; Appendix A. Notes to Table 1 ; Appendix B. Notes to Table 2 ; Index