University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law 2005 How Do Corporations Play Politics? The FedEx Story Jill E. Fisch University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship Part of the American Politics Commons, Business Law, Public Responsibility, and Ethics Commons, Business Organizations Law Commons, Economics Commons, Law and Economics Commons, Law and Politics Commons, Law and Society Commons, Legal Studies Commons, and the Politics and Social Change Commons Repository Citation Fisch, Jill E., "How Do Corporations Play Politics? The FedEx Story" (2005). Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law. 1041. https://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/faculty_scholarship/1041 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Faculty Scholarship at Penn Law by an authorized administrator of Penn Law: Legal Scholarship Repository. For more information, please contact
[email protected]. How Do Corporations Play Politics?: The FedEx Story Jill E. Fisch* INTRODUCTION ..............................................................................1496 I. FEDEX AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL CAPITAL ....1503 II. FEDEX AND REGULATORY CHANGE: THE NATURE AND ROLE OF POLITICAL ACTIVITY ............................................1511 A. Air Cargo Deregulation ..........................................1512 B. Trucking Deregulation............................................1518