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In addition to these concepts that seek to look at the social responsibility of business, there is a much older body of literature on which scholars in business and society have drawn. Historians, political scientists, economists (especially the more recent public choice economists) and political philosophers have been concerned with the relationship between the corporation and government. Epstein (1969) has analyzed the literature on the role of the corporation in American politics and concluded that “at the pres- ent time, corporations should not be subject to special restrictions limiting the nature or extent of their political involvement.“ He goes on to argue that all “associational political participants“ should be governed by requirements on disclosure and lobbying. The rich history of political science and an analysis of the concepts and justice of power can, of course be traced to Plato's Republic and Aristotle's Politics. Yet as Epstein (1969, 1980) points out there is an amazing scarcity of scholarship on corporate political activity. While kindred concepts in the political science literature such as “constituency“ (see Mitnick, 1980, for a review), “interest group,“ “publics,“ and “the public interest“ have been around for some time, there is little besides the “institutional economists“ such as John R. Commons which recognizes and deals with the complexity in which the modern corporation finds itself.