Private Generosity and Public Regulation: Understanding the Canadian Chartered Banks’ Philanthropic Efforts in Historical Context

dc.contributor.author	Young, Kevin
dc.contributor.editor	Fitzsimmons, Scott
dc.contributor.editor	Singh, Anita
dc.date.accessioned	2020-12-18T19:44:35Z
dc.date.available	2020-12-18T19:44:35Z
dc.date.issued	2006
dc.description.abstract	This article contributes to our understanding of financial power in Canada by highlighting the ways in which the Canadian chartered banks may have used philanthropy strategically to diffuse public hostility to their power. Taking an historical perspective, it is argued that it was in the 1990s that an important transformation took place in the Canadian banking sector: bank philanthropy not only accelerated, but also became more populist, and showed signs of being reactive to negative public attitudes about the concentration of financial power in Canada. To theorize these phenomena, the Gramscian notion of 'hegemony' is invoked to help explain the banking sectors’ collective behaviour.
dc.identifier.issn	1480-6339
dc.identifier.issn	1480-6374
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/112873
dc.identifier.uri	https://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/38468
dc.publisher.department	Political Science
dc.publisher.department	Government
dc.publisher.faculty	Arts
dc.publisher.institution	London School of Economics and Political Science
dc.rights	© Innovations: A Journal of Politics 1998-2036
dc.title	Private Generosity and Public Regulation: Understanding the Canadian Chartered Banks’ Philanthropic Efforts in Historical Context
dc.type	journal article