Lists of Figures, Maps, and Tables Acronyms Preface Acknowledgements Sources Chapter One: Concepts and Frameworks Exploring the Politics of Firms The Firm as a Political Coalition Corporate Strategy Exploring the Politics of Industries Industry Classification Market Structure Industry versus Business Product Cycle Exploring the Politics of the State Policy Analysis Policy Cycle Policy Networks Conclusion Key Terms and Relationships Chapter Two: Pulp and Paper Politics The Industry at the Millennium Overview Historical Development Structure Strategies Domtar Inc.: A Diversified Eastern Canadian Pulp and Paper Producer Stora Forest Industries: A Foreign Subsidiary in a Distant Market Policy Issues The Regulation of Pulp Mill Effluent The Pulp and Paper Modernization Program, 1979-1984 Conclusion Key Terms and Relationships Chapter Three: Steel Politics The Industry at the Millennium Overview Historical Development Structure Strategies Steel Company of Canada (Stelco Inc.): Profile of an Industry Leader Interprovincial Steel Company (IPSCO Inc.): From Regional Mini-mill to Multinational Policy Issues The Sysco-Algoma Rail Dispute: Inter-firm Conflict in a Situation of Surplus Capacity Steel Trade Politics: Dumping and Safeguards, 1997-2002 Conclusion Key Terms and Relationships Chapter Four: The Politics of Air Transport The Industry at the Millennium Overview Historical Development Structure Strategies Air Canada: The Life and Times of a Flag Carrier Canadian Airlines International and its Antecedents: The Private-Sector Alternative Policy Issues Canada-US "Open Skies": Free Trade in the Air? Onex and the Air Canada Monopoly: The Takeover/Merger Issue of 1999 Conclusion Key Terms and Relationships Chapter Five: Conclusion Industries are Politically, as well as Economically, Constituted Multiple Fields of Engagement Globalization''s Many Shapes Policy Networks as Crucial Connectors State Capacities Make a Difference Beware of Simple Dichotomies Never Discount the Wider Political Context A Final Word Chapter Six: Postscript: Micropolitics Marches On The Softwood Lumber Dispute and the Canfor-Slocan Merger North American Steel Safeguards and the WTO Challenge Air Canada and the Special World of Bankruptcy Protection Conclusion Appendix: Micropolitics on the World Wide Web Pulp and Paper Steel Airline Transport References Index.